Quotes About Isolation

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary.

No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.

Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact--of being close to people, of being touched.

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

Locked up eighteen years, without even a television set or a newspaper. Needlework might seem pretty important if it was all you could do.

Josh wanted to tell her what he knew: that love might look like a shore but turn out to be a desert island, where you roamed alone, talking to yourself, trying to crack open coconuts with your shoe. So thirsty you drank the salt water. So hungry you ate the sand.

The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

You and I have a problem, Ronin. You think you're working alone, that we all exist here to shine a spotlight on you and your crusades. You've disrespected me and now, by arresting Towler at our front door, you've disrespected everybody in this building and possibly in the entire department.

Shut away, drugged up, and silenced," Faust said. "I'm sure that's exactly what you'd prefer, because you don't want me, or anyone else, revealing the truth.

The people who live in these places think the gates protect them from all the crime and misery that's out there, but it doesn't. It just locks them in with it.

men were ruined and families were destroyed by Ronin. She's the only person in the department I don't trust to have my back. Nobody does.

also have electricity and running water," Garvey said. "You really are a dinosaur. If you aren't on social media, you might as well be dead.

Ronnie had retired from acting to live off the grid in an underground bunker in the Nevada desert to escape the government, which he fervently believed was listening to his thoughts and planning a global pandemic to usher in a new world order.

I like to write. Sometimes I'm afraid that I like it too much because when I get into work I don't want to leave it. As a result I'll go for days and days without leaving the house or wherever I happen to be. I'll go out long enough to get papers and pick up some food and that's it. It's strange, but instead of hating writing I love it too much.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

For one timeless ghastly interval he thought he saw the fabric of the ship itself dissolving with him into a mist of discrete particles, he knew that he wasn't human anymore and nothing was real. And then plunged headlong into nothingness.