Quotes About Isolation

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

Man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance.

We leave this life the same way that we enter it, totally alone, bereft.

Mars and my own stupidity keep trying to kill me.

Jane woke, stretched, and decided to kill herself. If she hadn't found a reason to live by the end of the day she would jump from the rig. It felt good to have a plan.

Bellamy had come down from scanning the heavens only to find himself in the depths of hell.

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.

May the gods ignore you.

When you become big enough to wear this, they'll come for you. You'll probably be 17. It will be spring. Get on the ship. There, your ability will be needed. Then you'll be... free from solitude.

We lived longer but at a price. We had to be our own children, having none.

I'm so close to Schiaparelli I can taste it. I guess it would taste like sand, mostly, but that's not the point.

The answer is they didn't. They aren't here, Razor. They never were it's just us. It's always been just us.

He spent the afternoon alone in the streets.

I am not capable of love. - Felix

So I'm alone. I have no one. Is that what you're telling me?" - Junco, Range (to be published April 2013)

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.

People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.

No mommy's kisses and no daddy's smile. Nobody wants me, I'm nobody's child.

Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit- An effect, a cosmetic. You smile. No, it is not fatal.

I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.