Quotes About Isolation

As I said, when a person is unpopular, it's so easy to think badly of him

Evanlyn opende haar mond om te schreeuwen... Vreemd, dacht ze, dat ze haar helemaal hierheen hadden gebracht, haar de nacht aan een boom hadden vastgebonden, en haar nu zouden doden. Wat een zinloze manier om dood te gaan.

Orman nodded wearily 'As I said, when a person is unpopular, it's so easy to think badly of him

The Doomed Spaceman ... Weightless, helpless, I'm locked on a track I can't reverse; For once glimpse of home, I would give back the universe. Constellation by constellation, I journey through. My destination Nowhere but death. Ted Walker

On some other planet in some other time zone, there are intelligent beings who feel very much alone. On some other planet one that we can't see, there must be one person who's a duplicate of me. John Rice

The Eagle Has Landed The airlock swings open - Behold! A new world: obsidian black sky lit by the sun's fierce glare. Inch Down the ladder - The first man on the moon!* Look! The first footprint. Listen! The first word splitting the still dead silence. Dead dust dead rock dead black sky A dead dead world. Zombie in a moontrance I* trip stumble fall rise before the slow dust settles. Adrian Rumble

Nobody tells me anything.

it begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places...

I'm the last person to ask about unrequited love - I've run away to the Moon and fled to its valleys...

I send my words to you over the ether net like a message in a bottle...

you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression...

some people are incapable of love - they have calloused souls...

you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...

nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters...

People who are abused keep quiet," he said, "so I did.

He's never coming out except nailed in a box or in an ash can," he said. "He is not stepping out.

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

I hadn't been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

Shut in from all the world without,We sat the clean-winged hearth about.

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.

Eventually I came to understand some of what was at work between my father and Murphy. Unable to meet each other on equal terms, they chose not to meet at all but to orbit around each other like two separate planets of entirely different composition. It was, I realize now, the way my father dealt with just about everyone, including his wife and children.

Earth as our home in space, a single blue-white oasis of life surrounded by a black desert.

War is personal, kid. You're surrounded by other soldiers, but you're fundamentally alone. Every combat soldier will tell you the same. You pull the trigger, and a man dies. You paint a tree with his brains or spill his guts out in the mud. The how of it don't signify, except in the nightmares, maybe, or what you see in the mirror first time you find the courage to look.