Quotes About Isolation

Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy.

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!

All those cities, all those fields and farms, with nobody, and nothing left alive. Just nothing there. I simply can't take it in.

In 1383, the authorities in Marseille extended the isolation period to forty days, giving the quarantine its name. (The duration was a biblical touch, inspired by the forty days and forty nights of the flood in Genesis, the forty years the Israelites spent wandering in the wilderness, and the forty days of Lent.)

Poor devil! None of us can have the remotest idea of the agony it is to be despised and rejected of men. A cancer in the soul and then madness. The feeling of there being a curtain, more invisible than gauze, stronger than iron, between one's self and one's fellow man. To cry out of the abyss and to know that there will be no answer, that one is buried alive.

The iPhone can have a way of presumptuously insisting that it is better than you are. If you want to have it fixed or get an accessory for it, you are required to go into one of the horrid stores with metallic bad-breath air, and then inevitably wait for two hours after being told it would only be ten minutes. The salespeople act as if they have everything you need, but enjoy concealing it from you while you have to figure out what it is. What

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror.

He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever.

In another place, in another time, she would have felt the majesty of the beauty around her, but as she stood on the beach, she realized that she didn't feel anything at all. In a way, she felt as if she weren't really here, as if the whole thing was nothing but a dream.

He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.

May be they want to talk about it but they know there's nothing you can do to help

Mount Carmel was a very monastic place. We lived in another time - an easier time, a better time. We didn't have running water or most modern conveniences. But in a lot of ways, it was a very satisfying life.

Nobody mountain bikes anymore - or ever did - in comedy, so I have to go by myself.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

The nature of most Covid-19 deaths, in hospital or a care home away from family and friends, has made it worse for the people they leave behind. In the absence of the traditional rites and rituals of funeral and mourning - the opportunity to just share a hug - the process of bereavement has been made even harder to bear.

Well, I just bought a massive bank and I've moved into it on my own.

In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.

When I first got famous in the '60s, I got a little too famous, and in order to escape showbusiness, I moved to Hawaii.

When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time for the band.

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.

I'm concerned when certain movements or countries have been isolated from the international dialogue because then you have no way of influencing them.

When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world.