Quotes About Isolation

Emotion isn't really what I felt . . . Living, one is so detached.

I am standing somewhere underground, in an underworld, with all the others. I never wanted this.

but you are incomplete unattached to me . . .

Now I feel I was inserted into life exactly not to do that. For I have been robbed of everything that made me social

I don't know how to be . . . an- ything but empty.

I already have no point of view except that of the fallen. I have no individuality, because I'm a deadened thing.

I don't reside on your planet. I have never lived.

No one is kind to me; no one asks me what's wrong.

Oh but I need my lone self!

I have no needs. No country, no continent, no hope. I sit in blackness where I once lived. In magic, the only force I recognize. What is it? a face cries, skittering away. All that's left, I reply

Who wants to see us anyway?

being discriminated against as a tragic stranger.

It's all like me; and any song for this would just be bullshit. This is a thing, where they stopped trying, they deserted it, and desertion itself is the only possible song.

I'm alone as usual impossibly nowhere or right here. I walked a path, formerly.

I'm so crazy I can't know anyone anymore. I listen to voices, see people who aren't tangible to others; they sustain me, and I need them. Who's to say who's really here?

She could die now; no one would see it, her.

I want to be lawless; I want to be alone.

little distant sounds of shut-away singing

so by degrees I became invisible in that spotted sick-room light and nobody found me there.

And so he goes on dwindling away maybe through too much prayer is now too rarefied to touch or settle anywhere

I am cold cold trying to slide myself out of my own shade but hour by hour more shade leaks out

not many of us left not much movement in the blackening lanes among a few low trees little flocks of orchids in the ditches nobody cares

and I who live in the basement one level down from the world

Three people in the snow getting rid of themselves breath by breath