Quotes About Isolation

Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.

Im a glacier in a sea of idiots

The capitalist epoch is the first in human history that permits individuals to view themselves as isolated entities with no inherent connection to their fellow beings.

I've got nothing left to lose. Nothing can hurt me anymore. My life is nothing but comedy." - The Joker

It's bad to be unable to stand solitude.

All my life I have felt myself to be on the edge of things. All my life I have suffered from bad dreams. All my life I have had difficulty in knowing whether I am awake or in a nightmare.

Though they could be affectionate to other monkeys, few were able to mate as adults, and those who did have offspring were not able to take care of them properly. Clearly, the lack of normal response from their fake mothers, and their isolation from other monkeys, had made them socially backward. They

Csikszentmihalyi suggests that the common idea of a creative individual coming up with great insights, discoveries, works, or inventions in isolation is wrong. Creativity results from a complex interaction between a person and their environment or culture, and also depends on timing.

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

Today's modular cubicle is a masterpiece of compromise: It gives you no meaningful privacy and yet still manages to make you feel isolated.

What I found with depression was that it occurred when I was lying dormant, when I had nothing better to do.

There's nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.

People love the ocean. People are always asking me why I don't study the ocean, because, after all, I live in Hawaii. I tell them that it's because the ocean is a lonely, empty place.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

I think there's a lot of people in their dingy boats in the middle of the ocean pining for the days of closed-ended narrative.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

When I was a teenager in Georgia I always felt like the odd one. I never felt like I fit in.

In an odd sort of way, the computer and the Internet is the hermit's ideal form of communication. You don't have to see anyone. To send an email, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just send it, and they'll read it on their own. The Internet has been really good for hermits.

At the time, nobody knew what it was. It had no name. When everything else is out of your control, you can control your eating. You end up cutting a lot of things off. Nothing reaches you. I was very happy then - that was the oddity.

I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture... Probably a genetic flaw. I can't really explain it.

Oh, I got a beautiful 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille four-door. No one will ride in it with me.

Oh, I think I'd be a lighthouse keeper. I was living on my own for a lot through COVID, and I think I was quite good at it.

I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.

As we grow up, either we lose people or have a lot of them around us. I have seen many people who are isolated in their old age.