Quotes About Isolation

It was funny, she thought, but her smile turned wistful because she had nobody to tell.

It gave her a creeping sense of impending aloneness, like she was some orphaned animal raised by do-gooders, soon to be released into the wild. She didn't want to be released into the wild. She wanted to be held dear .

He dreamed of deserts and great empty cities and imagined he could feel the minutes and hours of his life running through him, as though he were nothing but an hourglass of flesh and bone.

I have not yet elected to bestow the grace of my saliva upon another human being. I have never… kissed anyone.

And so Grief and Shame abided in adjoining rooms with the door shut between them, holding their pain in their arms instead of each other.

Hate could do that, too - live off nothing but itself - but not forever.

The iguana was not invited.

Érase una vez una niña que creció entre monstruos. Pero los ángeles incendiaron las puertas hacia su mundo, y ella quedó completamente sola.

It was like dying, but without the consolation of oblivion.

She was lonely, and she feared the missingness within her as if it might expand and... cancel her.

The thing about having friends who are as close as blood, as true as your own heart, as the twins had been to her, is you don't bother much with other people. And if you have the misfortune to get left behind, well, you've made yourself a lonely nest to live in.

The scenario made her hyperaware of her powerlessness. If, some day, the door didn't open, she would be alone.

She had said she didn't feel fear, but it was a lie; this was her fear: being left alone.

Without his books, his room felt like a body with its heart cut out. Now his body felt like a body with its hearts cut out.

The silence felt like an empty speech bubble: It took up space but there were no words. Karou…

Arata ca o papusa care , ani de-a randul , zacuse neiubita int-o lada cu jucarii.

To be accepted, honored, loved, like someone's child. And since they couldn't have any of it, it all took the form of spite. Anyone who has ever been excluded can understand what they felt, and no one has ever been quite so excluded as they.

La luz la trataba de manera distinta que al resto, y el aire parecía detenerse a su alrededor, como un aliento contenido. Como si aquel lugar fuera un cuento dedicado a ella

For obvious reasons, crowds are worse than ever. My misanthropy knows no bounds. Hate rises off me like cartoon heat waves.

she said she heard nothing, that our friend might well be screaming, but what I heard was only the memory of my own scream trapped like a wasp inside my head.

Emily Dickinson, one could be certain, didn't have silly friends. She didn't need them.

Hospital: warehouse of the used and the superfluous, the half-here and the half-there.

She was surrounded by those who thought they offered her the comfort of an outreached palm, unaware that they delivered a fist.

Are there no solitudes out of the cave and the desert; or cannot the heart in the midst of crowds feel frightfully alone?