I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!
(n.) The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness.
Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looking for relief from loneliness in friendship, we are only going to frustrate the friendship. Friendsh...
I have been sadder than any man could be: for nothing in the world was made for me.
Solitude vivifies isolation kills.
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...
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...
Halls are full of strangers, even when you recognize the faces.
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...
Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.
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...
The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude.
Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.
Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.
There comes a time when something changes you... No matter the impact... Where the world no longer beats in time with you. You no longer feel amongst the fray.. And the feeling of loneliness is a bran...
You have entered an abnormal, lonely, and unwelcome new world where you are nothing but an island of sadness.
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...
Isolation is a way to know ourselves.