Quotes About Isolation

If everyone else in the world were to mysteriously disappear, I would feel irritated about it only because there would be no one to make me doughnuts.

But it is a truism of life that no matter how much we are suffering, nobody else cares—generally speaking, nobody even notices.

Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal.

I felt like a ventriloquist's dummy, suddenly called upon to perform the whole act alone.

Aside from the fruit basket, the room was as empty as the inside of Dexter on the shelf marked SOUL.

I floated through the rest of the morning in my cloud of adrenaline and alienation, the whole time feeling as if I might split apart at the seams at any minute. But

Cody sat and looked around him as if the world had gone mad and exploded into a hideous caterwauling din, and he was the only one left with a clear head and a sense of decency.

They didn't need to know a thing about me to decide that I had overstayed my time on planet Earth. I

Nothing else loves me, or ever will. Not even—especially—me. I know what I am and that is not a thing to love.

Loneliness is an art form

I heard myself sigh heavily, and I wondered if this was really how it all ended; framed by a brainless thug, shunned by my colleagues, stalked by a whining computer nerd who couldn't even make it in minor-league baseball. It was well beyond ignoble, and very sad—I'd shown such tremendous early progress, too. The

All we ask is to be let alone.

Curiously, while drone operators are perhaps the safest of all combat troops physically, they have among the highest rates of depression and post-traumatic stress in the military and national security services. Sitting at a video console in Colorado or New York City, killing someone six thousand miles away and then collecting the kids at gymnastics or football practice, having dinner and sitting down to watch Dancing with the Stars in your suburban den was disorienting beyond belief.

Solitude Creek, a Kathryn Dance thriller

The young woman shrugged, walked to her computer, picked it up. She flopped down on the couch and scanned through it. This was something else I'd noticed that my principals had done more and more recently, in the safe house and halfway motels: withdrawn into their cyberwombs. Joanne

Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories (1997)

the most out of the way? He

Another thing about the outbuilding. The designers completely soundproofed the place. The reason for this was so that the principals couldn't hear threats or demands coming from the outside. The corollary was that neither could you hear screams from inside. Night

sometimes an abundance of sympathy can be more overwhelming than solitude. Giles

We worked together, we studied together, we played together, but we slept alone.

sometimes an abundance of sympathy can be more overwhelming than solitude.

We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.

Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

We had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us... calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.