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Quotes About Isolation

Lock all communication. If there's no light within my day. I'd rather stay in isolation. For that special someone a lifetime I'll wait.
~ Buju Banton
It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.
~ Edward Hopper
More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.
~ Studs Terkel
I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
~ Bjork
The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.
~ Erich Fromm
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
~ Marya Mannes
In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.
~ Bill Vaughan
Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
~ Sydney J. Harris
What worries me is that now, communication is virtual.
~ Franca Sozzani
Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
The hard part about SNL is, there's no real communication when you get there. It's not like people are mean to you, they just act like you're not there.
~ David Spade
Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
~ Werner Herzog
The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Consumers do not view communications in isolation. They bring with them all their past brand experiences and associations.
~ Josh Hunt
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.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.
~ Shawn Fanning
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?
~ Tao Lin
The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.
~ Bootsy Collins
Almost every song on OK Computer revolves around how I am afraid computers get up at night and attempt to choke me with their wires.*doesn't laugh*
~ Thom Yorke
Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.
~ Stanley Donwood
I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.
~ Iris Apfel
I have a television, but it's not connected to anything. I watch everything on my computer.
~ Natasha Lyonne