Quotes About Isolation

I know that if I were mad, after several days of confinement I should take advantage of any lapses in my madness to murder anyone, preferably a doctor, who came near me. At least this would permit me, like the violent, to be confined in solitary. Perhaps they'd leave me alone.

There's only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.

I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call; where everything hanging from the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond.

Even at relatively low population densities, sprawl tends not to pay for itself financially and consumes land at an alarming rate, while producing insurmountable traffic problems and exacerbating social inequity and isolation.

I am confident that future historical research will confirm that the expansion of the capitalist system over the past century has effectively and entirely penetrated even the apparently most isolated sectors of the underdeveloped world.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

for the rich pity only each other, no?

Por qué buscas la compañía en tus momentos de degradación? Vuélvete adicto de los vicios solitarios.

La lectura es la comunicación perfecta de acciones solitarias

cómo es que te pienso, región, y no estoy, cómo fue que te dejaste descubrir así de una, me encerraste en el descubrimiento y me dejaste fuera de ti

Ho attraversato una grande estate, poi ho perso quella partita. Mi ha spezzato il cuore. Non mi sono mai sentito così solo sul campo o più deluso dal gioco.

Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's opponent provides a kind of companionship, someone he can grapple with and grunt at. In tennis you stand face-to-face with the enemy, trade blows with him, but never touch him or talk to him, or anyone else

I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call; where everything hanging from the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic; where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later be etched by a diamond.

it's almost easier being down and alone than when you re up and no one s there to share the view with you

Coming?" Dennis held his arm out for her, a patient smile in his voice. She peered up at him, but he was just a tall, blurry shadow. There was talk and laughter and music coming from inside the house. Above it the stars were in a black sky. That black, black sky. "You all right?" All those stars so far apart. None of them close. From far away they just looked it.

satisfaction and the outer lock shut

Lo so come ti senti. È come essere dietro un vetro, non puoi toccare niente di quello che vedi. Ho passato tre quarti della mia vita chiuso fuori, finché ho capito che l'unico modo è romperlo. E se hai paura di farti male, prova a immaginarti di essere già vecchio e quasi morto, pieno di rimpianti.

Nessuno di noi due aveva grandi legami con gli altri nostri compagni, io per timidezza e perché li consideravo parte di un mondo che non volevo accettare, Guido perché era troppo diverso da loro.

Desperate, lonely, cut off from the human community which in many cases has ceased to exist, under the sentence of violent death, wracked by desires for intimacy they do not know how to fulfil, at the same time tormented by the presence of women, men turn to logic.

I don't know how to act around anybody.

But somewhere in America, between the freeways and the Food-4-Less, between the filling stations and the 5-o-'clock news, behind the blue blinking light coming off the TV, there is a space, an empty space, between us, around us, inside us, that inevitable, desperate, begs to be filled up. And nothing, not shame, not God, not a new microwave, not a wide-screen TV or that new diet with grapefruits, can ever, ever fill it. Underneath all that white noise there's a lack.

Self-isolation in a slum is a contradiction in terms.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.