Sentence examples for tragic isolation from inspiring English sources

The resulting conflict in her heart and mind is never resolved, and, although it does not destroy her, she lives out her life in gray and tragic isolation.

"I would judge the sanest man to be him who most firmly realizes the tragic isolation of humanity and pursues his essential purposes calmly," he wrote.

"Hence I would judge the sanest man to be him who most firmly realizes the tragic isolation of humanity and pursues his essential purposes calmly").

And it is her own tragic isolation she so fiercely articulates: "My life is caught in a web of reason spun by a doctor to augment the sane".

They also represent a general malaise peculiar to the bourgeois world of the affluent postwar years, and are victims of what Yates sees as the human condition, a tragic isolation summed up in the title of his next book, a collection of stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness.

Owen sketches the tragic isolation of these various states as he builds to a passionate affirmation of human connectedness.

These lost souls, John Canaday wrote in The New York Times, "have the terrible anonymity of individuals who cannot be reached, whose ugly physical presence is only the symptom of a tragic spiritual isolation".

It caused the tragic suffering and isolation of their lives, but in their day was not yet recognized by the medical community as a diagnosable and treatable illness.

In any case, they might see that chimp as tragic in his isolation from his fellow creatures and his ill-suited embodiment a high price to pay for its cognitive upgrade (Kittay 2005).

Talk is not enough, nor is simply reacting to each tragic event in isolation.

He set off on the tragic journey towards public isolation and contempt in which he now finds himself stuck.