Quotes About Isolation

for he could scarcely make them move together to grip a twig, and they seemed remote from his body and from him. 

ancient, grizzled, wild-eyed, emaciated by fever, dragged his weary frame up the veranda steps and collapsed in a steamer-chair.  Whisky and soda kept him going while he made report and turned in his accounts.

ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.  And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original Bounty mutineers.  The blended Tahitian and English blood showed in his soft

hard as he strove with his body, he strove equally hard with his mind, trying to think that Bill had not deserted him, that Bill would surely wait for him at the cache.  He was compelled to think this thought, or else there would not be any use to strive, and he would have lain down and died. 

They ran through the night. And the next day found them still running. They were running over the surface of a world frozen and dead. No life stirred.

Per cinque anni udì soltanto una parola gentile, ricevette una sola carezza, e non capì di che si trattava.

Tahitians, knew that it was madness to go on alone.  So he stood waist-deep in the grass and looked regretfully across the rolling savannah and the soft-swelling foothills to the Lion's Head, a massive peak of rock that upreared into the azure from the midmost centre of Guadalcanar, a landmark used for bearings by every coasting mariner, a mountain as yet

It's colder than the hinges of hell a thousand years before the first fire was lighted.

Carson recordó la vieja historia del siglo XX del cosmonauta que se quedó desamparado en el espacio cuando la Unión Soviética se disolvió: se encontraba dando vueltas a la Tierra cuando, de repente, el país que lo había llevado hasta allá arriba dejó de existir.

Observe! I hold the magic tablet of truth! You are Monster; I am Man. Each is alone; each sees dawn and dusk; each feels pain and pain's ease. Why should one be victor and the other victim? We will never agree; never shall you know gain by the toil of man! Submit to the what-must-be! If you fail to heed, then you must taste a bitter brew and never again walk the sands of dark Sigil.

aloof from the society of ordinary mortals

She lived in an environment that few people in the world have ever been able to survive. What knowledge did she have that made that possible? How did she survive for so long in a place that would kill most of us within days? Soon after my visit the old woman died, and now we may never know.

With her husband dead and no other man willing to take her, Hoelun was now outside the family, and as such no one had any obligation to help her. The message that she was no longer a part of the band came to her, the way Mongols always symbolize relationships, through food.

Thou art the shoals on which Caliban wilt dash his heart to pieces.

Islands have their own rules, especially if they're blood-soaked.

Je ne connais pas que la plaine caillouteuse, l'errance et la lente perte de l'espoir, je suis le rejeton stérile d'une race dont je ne sais rien, pas même si elle a disparu. Peut-être que, quelque part, l'humanité resplendit sous les étoiles, ignorant qu'une fille de son sang achève sa vie dans le silence. Nous n'y pouvons rien.

Il est étrange que je meure de l'utérus, moi qui n'ai jamais eu de règles et qui n'ai pas connu les hommes.

Alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror.

Qué importa ya si me he quedado muda en un mundo en donde no tengo nadie con quien hablar?

Quizá las personas que están solas no tienen tiempo. El tiempo solo se adquiere mirándolo pasar por los demás.

Lily was strapped in her special chair. She sang, "Ur ur ur ur ur," quietly to herself.

Solitude was her soul's hermitage.

Solitude was her soul's hermitage.

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.