Quotes About Isolation

Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.

Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else.

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

Privacy is a core condition of being a free person.

Back you fly to your perch, ashamed as well as frustrated. Life is almost all perch. There is no nest; and no one is with you, on exactly the same rock or out on the same limb. The circumstances of passion are all too petty to be companionable.

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

I remember Spider Woman from the first page of Leslie's novel Ceremony. She is the Thought Woman who names things and so brings them into being. Until then, I had imagined myself alone in believing that spiders should be the totem of writers. Both go into a space alone and spin out of their own bodies a reality that has never existed before.

Everyone has a home but me.

Spiders should be the totem of writers. Both go into a space alone and spin out of their own bodies a reality that has never existed before.

Public opinion polls have long proved there is majority support for pretty much every issue that the women's movement has brought up, but those of us, women or men, who identify with feminism are still made to feel isolated, wrong, out of step.

Those with extra money discover how much more satisfying it is to see talent and fairness grow than to see objects accumulate. Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn't cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.

Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn't cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.

I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn't find my way into their world. They seemed to have a secret code I couldn't decipher.

None but the lonely heart understands my sorrows. Alone and torn from all joy, I gaze into the firmament, into the distant space. The one who loves me, who knows me, is nowhere near. I am dizzy and my insides are aflame. None but the lonely heart knows how I suffer.

Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.

Czym?e jest nasze ?ycie? Dolin?, w której zamieszka?a gorycz. Czym jest ?wiat? Nieczu?ym t?umem ludzi.

Conviene saber que el capote de Akaki Akákievich también era objeto de las burlas de sus compañeros; hasta le habían privado del noble nombre de capote y lo denominaban bata.

I wondered why I was acting so calm. I wondered why I didn't writhe against being inside my own body. If I could rip off my skin, I'd leave it in a bloody, shapeless heap on the floor beside the toilet, like so much dirty laundry. I'd beat my head against the wall until there was nothing left of my face, if it would get me outside of myself.

La peor soledad que hay es darse cuenta de que la gente es idiota

I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.

She was difficult, she knew. She did not make friends. She was brisk and demanding, unsparing and indulgent.