Quotes About Isolation

...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.

We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

Prison is like high school with knives.

So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

Sometimes I get really lonely. Especially when I'm throwing a Frisbee.

I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.

Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.

Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.

I'm very English really. I even ordered a book on the internet, 'how to have absolutely nothing to do with your neighbors'. Unfortunately I was out when it was delivered.

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.

Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.

Head gear, plus acne equals...table for one in the cafeteria.

Just remember, we're all in this alone.

He had probably been thrown out of a wine shop, and it hadn't quite dawned on him yet.

All we can hope for is that he will fall into the ocean with a bar of soap in his pocket.

Life is a pigsty.