Sometimes isolation can be shared.
So it is with sorrow, each thinks his own present grief the most severe. For of this he judges by his own experience. He that is childless considers nothing so sad as to be without children; he that i...
(n.) The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness.
I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one wai...
World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!
Caught in your youniverse again? Try reaching out to the one besides you!
To draw me out, the therapist asks what I did for the holidays. When I tell him he says gently (he says everything gently), Sounds like that's one of the ways your loss has affected you: not wanting t...
One recalls the literary writer who, after grasping a story of a Mars voyage as a metaphor for isolation and the precariousness of relationships, realized that at a deeper, more subtle level it might...
Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.
People mean well; they just aren't here enough to get what we are dealing with or what home means to my mother. Everyone thinks they know what should be done, and their suggestions make me suspect the...
You have entered an abnormal, lonely, and unwelcome new world where you are nothing but an island of sadness.
Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.
Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.
The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
Isolation can be a particular problem for mothers at home with small children. Mothers become isolated from each other because we fear judgement. Other mothers can be our harshest critics. And we anti...
our hearts break, and take us out of relationships that are too painful for us
Halls are full of strangers, even when you recognize the faces.
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.
In the deepest darkness God tenderly grasps my hand and whispers that darkness is nothing more than a place that He is preparing for the arrival of light.
She was a stray after all. A stray not only in its plantation meaning-orphaned, with no one to look after her-but in every other sphere as well. Somewhere, years ago, she had stepped off the path of l...