Quotes About Isolation

Without the neural connection to his armor, he was conscious of the stumps of his legs, the ruin of his arms, the perpetual pain in his flesh. He

You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here.

Romesh Chand was a man who did not believe in telephones, in the necessity for telephones

You can be with somebody and still feel alone.

I started to built a wall around myself. My way of dealing with other kids became to preemptively push them away. I started to act like a smart-ass or a clown, putting myself in a position where nobody wanted to be around me. I wished I weren't alone all the time, but at the same time, I did things to keep people away from me. The conflict inside could be excruciating. I was helpless.

The techniques of brainwashing are simple: isolate the victim, expose them to consistent messages, mix with sleep deprivation, add some form of abuse, get the person to doubt what they know and feel, keep them on their toes, wear them down, and stir well.

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Wayne? When I'm famous I'm not gonna speak to anybody—not even the band.' It was a strange thing to say—it stuck in my head." Only then did he reflect how David was always "friendly. But I suppose he was never really giving much away.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly

His heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard him against the truth. He flatters himself that he is entirely alone there.... Patience, dear lady. Perhaps, one day, he will discover some footprint on the sand.... What holy and happy terror, what salutary fright, once he recognizes in that pure sign of grace that his island is mysteriously inhabited!...

You have made yourself an island of time, you are a time that has become detached from that vast Time in which your indefinite duration has the subsistence and eternity of a smoke-ring.

An alone man is always badly accompanied.

We shall soon have to build heavily insulated cloisters where neither radio waves nor newspapers can come, in which ignorance of all politics will be guarded and cultivated. Speed, numbers, effects of surprise, contrast, repetition, size novelty, and credulity will be despised there. And thither, on certain days, visitors will come, to look through the iron bars at a few specimens of free men.

It's no life, Paula. It's a living nightmare.

This was before I knew that we all live on this planet, driving in the cars of our own little minds, our own self-contained worlds. Yes, this was before I knew that, when I thought that I mattered, when I thought that people saw me, deep into me, saw all my love and excitement at being alive, saw the very glistening, running-overness of my aliveness. But we only matter when we do something awful. Then, someone sees us and only then.

Loneliness is not the worst emotion

There was a siege going on: it had been going on for a long time, but the besieged themselves were the last to take it seriously.

Sometimes he though her coolness not so much a cover as the thing itself, an emptiness