Quotes About Isolation

They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug

There are moment in life when one ceases to live and merely exists, when physical misery or discomfort become so great that they exclude all other sensations. One goes on, automatically, a body without a mind, like a tadpole, with no thought of the past or hope for the future. The present is eternity and fabricated of despair.

How could it be that her husband could be physically so close to her every day, beside her in bed every night, yet so far away, so distant

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.

You'd have thought Louise was the snow itself, falling all around me, muffling the cold and the wind even as she was the source of it.

Il gît, terrassé par ce qui transporte les autres, tellement éloigné de lui-même qu'il prend pour du désespoir ce qui n'est que de l'extase.

Oh s'il te plaît cache-moi dans ton abri antiplanétaire pour que la vie qui a la rage ne me retrouve jamais, redonne-moi mon rire aveugle et la distance, surtout, la distance jadis si grande entre la mort et moi...

I am forced to admit that I am, to them, nothing but a series of destinations with no meaningful expanses in between.

Following the death of his wife, Sam Johnson wrote to the Reverend Mr. Thomas Warton, "I have ever since seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wilds of life, without any certain direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on a world to which I have little relation." But my wife wasn't dead, merely absent.

We're born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?

Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.

how reality feels. People addicted to busyness, people who don't just use their cell phones in public but display in every nuance of cell-phone deportment their sense of throbbing connectedness to Something Important—these people would suffocate like fish on a dock if they were cut off from the Flow of Events they have conspired with their fellows to create. To these plugged-in players, the rest of us look like zombies, coasting on fumes. For

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody.

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for and unwanted are the greatest poverty.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.