Quotes About Isolation

With technology expanding at this ridiculous pace, bit by bit we're losing our humanity and our ability to connect with each other without having electronic media in the middle.

Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.

Technology grows and so does loneliness.

Before the Internet, if someone disappeared, it meant you should go looking for them. Now it means they got a life.

Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.

The Machine stops.""What do you say?""The Machine is stopping, I know it, I know the signs."She burst into a peal of laugher.

. .his cell phone didn't work in Three Pines, and neither did email. He almost expected to see messages fluttering back and forth in the sky above the village, unable to descend.

Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?

I've been alone since my mom met Scott.He sucked the nectar from her heartlike a famished butterfly. No nurture, no nourishment left for Kristina.A vacation is a poor substitutefor love.

At times like this, I'm thankful I don't feel love.

Everytime the leaves are changing it's the loneliest time of the year

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved

I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.