Quotes About Isolation

If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music.

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house.

The ocean and outer space are the same thing... There's no air. It's bleak and it's lonely... Humans have walked on the surface of the moon, but we still haven't been to the deepest part of the ocean.

Yes, but Father," he wanted to say from the back seat of a rapidly filling bus, "you never told us how to spend time alone in the midst of half a million people. Here, stars don't shine at night, trees don't speak.

You never told us how to spend time alone in the midst of half a million people. Here, stars don't shine at night, trees don't speak.

The sense of security which she thought she had found disappeared; the bottom fell out of her world and she felt herself falling into an abyss of unbelieving despair.

She thought she must be ill, though she had no idea what was wrong with her. All she knew was that the world had become a frightening place.

A dog that has been beaten for years will die if it is thrown out in the street to fend for itself. It will cringe in corners, not trusting a soul but always hoping for some kindness. The one emotion it will not feel is relief at its freedom.

But the robots who lived there kept their metal to themselves, so that the robots who lived in the centre were left to forge bodies out of wind and dust.

It is not good to be so much away from one's own people. It is the sort of thing known to make one strange.

classic single 'Down In The Tube Station at Midnight

Taking the car out of the rental parking lot, almost getting fender-bendered by the guy in the BMW speaking capitalist Cro-Magnon into his cell phone; wondering whether the time has come to get a gun; already starting to look forward to my lethal injection—

Seven severely depressed prisoners were listed as having died of "nostalgia.

No action will lead us to being smart, alone and broke.

This is why, Joe, this is why I shouldn't be left alone.

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

The total isolation of death. The loneliness of the dying man. That is what I had noticed about my father's death. We loved him but, in the end, we left him and he died alone. Because we were tired. Because it was late. Because there was nothing we could do. We loved him and yet he was on his own.

Så jækla langt vekke. En plog, noen biler, en temmelig lita dame fra Estland eller Litauen å ta bakfra. I have a dream... Alle mannfolk har et sted hvor de blir forsvarsløse. Ikke rart at jeg bare vil jækla langt vekk, og kjøre plogen, og ta ei dame bakfra og være i fred.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.

Med ingen kan man dele sine inderste tanker. Det vigtigste i verden er man alene med.

A gyerekkor hosszú és sz?k, mint egy koporsó, és egyedül nem lehet kijutni bel?le.