Quotes About Isolation

Daar, in dat meubelloze, ondanks de gezinsgrootte lege kamertje, temidden van de stapel naar verschaalde terpentijn riekende kerstbomen, ervoer ik voor het eerst in volle hevigheid de verlatenheid, die de onmiddellijke nabijheid van een in stomme aanbidding vereerd maar voor altijd onbereikbaar wezen inhoudt.

Zijn kennis van vreemde talen was nihil. Eigenlijk moest hij dood.

I was more addicted to self destruction then to the drugs themselves ... something very romantic about it

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

She, however, stood and said nothing. / Small, unnoticed, she stood in the crowd, listened, and said / nothing.

The island children did not look at the Aldens. In fact, they looked the other way.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

My thoughts are drowned, and shipwreck seems sweet to me in this sea.

The certain, lonely knowledge [120] that everything is vain but grief.

È cosa notata che il gran dolore (come ogni grande passione) non ha linguaggio esterno.

Solo il mio cor piaceami, e col mio core In un perenne ragionar sepolto, Alla guardia seder del mio dolore. Seul me plaisait mon coeur, et d'être enseveli Dans un échange éternel avec lui, Siégeant à la garde de ma douleur. (il primo amore, le premier amour)

peoples, like so many beasts, have fallen into the custom of each man thinking only of his own private interests and have reached the extreme of delicacy, or better of pride, in which like wild animals they bristle and lash out at the slightest displeasure. Thus no matter how great the throng and press of their bodies, they live like wild beasts in a deep solitude of spirit and will, scarcely any two being able to agree since each follows his own pleasure and caprice.

They had read of the albatross in the book of the bombed-out palace.

Solitude goes wherever you go, traveler.

His breath was the only sound, and in that darkness it seemed too loud. Was he the only one breathing? He stood and listened hard. For days he had felt as if something was pacing along just behind him, some shy creature following his scent.

The sign was done in blue lights and it kind of hung like a ghost there in the dripping trees. It swung and you could hear it creak. Just the sign, and nothing else.

Stand as far away from me as you can And ask me why Hang on to your rosary beads Close your eyes to watch me die You keep saying kick it, quit it, kick it, quit it God, but did you ever try To turn your sick soul inside out So that the world So that the world Can watch you die

A lonely man thinks of nothing but friendship, just as a repressed man thinks of nothing but flesh.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

Yet they are unmoved when told of the cruel blow that fortune has dealt them, happy to see out their days on this unknown and unspoiled atoll. They will tell you that the view from their windows is infinitely more magnificent than Manhattan's glittering skyline.

I want to follow him over the snows between the immaculate earth and now, between the silence and the shot that rang over the ice at the top of the globe, when the map of the earth was something we knew by heart, and they had not shot the bear, had not loosed the ice, had not, had not....

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

he was also banned even from engaging in conversation with two or more persons. He could not legally go to a child's birthday party any more than he could attend political rallies