Quotes About Isolation

it. At intervals of forty or fifty feet, air monitors were mounted on the right-hand wall. I found no signs of tampering. If the passageway led to the cooling-tower vault, as I was sure that it must, then it would be about four hundred feet long. Twice I thought I heard something behind me. When I looked over my shoulder, nothing loomed. The third time, I refused to succumb to the urge to glance back. Irrational

Amalia insisted he wasn't cold, but only wounded by life and emotionally isolated.

Being alone can be good. It is easy to find peace alone. But sometimes...being alone is a kind of death.

All junkies are nuts.

Only now does he realize that the worst of all miseries to afflict the human heart is loneliness.

Pathoformic.

This is just another day in April, a Tuesday defined by isolation and hard-won serenity

Darkness was conducive to contemplation.

Isolation is a wall against fear and despair. Only nature, quiet, and time for reflection can heal her. If she can be healed.

never come across a footprint other than one of her own.

the worst of all miseries to afflict the human heart is loneliness.

She has no family in the outside world. They are all dead.

stink of urine and feces. Four or five of the sleepers, unable to rise

The vision has passed, but he feels as though he is standing above a void, with nothing to support him, that his fall is about to begin, that he'll shatter his bones on the bloody rack and ruin below.

Lacking television, radio, or internet, she hoards seven CD players with six-disc magazines

On the road again, past the jerkwater called Warm Springs, heading toward Tonopah on federal highway 6

That and loneliness.

You and people like you must have developed these places. You must believe you can come and go from them as anonymous as ghosts." He wanted to argue, persuade, litigate, but no jury waited to be convinced, no judge to rule in his favor. There was just Jane, who had no courtroom role. She was only, possibly, his executioner.

Having found peace in isolation, she won't put it at risk.

the only companion with which he felt comfortable was sorrow.

Although he has perhaps breathed in hundreds of billions—even trillions—of programmed archaea that are carrying longevity-fostering genes from many species, perhaps it is a mistake to regard the breach of the organism-isolation labs as an existential crisis.

To create good fiction, you have to like people enough to want to write about the human condition—but close yourself alone in a room for a large part of your life to get the job done right.

Joe never married, and he lived alone all his life. He had no need of four chairs, and yet he built the extra three, perhaps as an expression of hope.

All appears to be quiet over on Ringrock. No boats patrol its shores, and no helicopters arrive or depart.