Quotes About Isolation

I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I'm not anxious, I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be so lonely because it seems catastrophic - seeing the car just as it hits you.

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

Os jovens conhecem cada vez mais o mundo em que estão, mas quase nada sobre o mundo que são. No máximo conhecem a sala de visitas da sua própria personalidade. Quer pior solidão do que esta? O ser humano é um estranho para si mesmo!

Se a sociedade nos abandona, a solidão é tratável, mas, se nós próprios nos abandonamos, ela é quase incurável.

In fact, one of the biggest consolations for a man doing time is knowing 90% of people in the outside world don't realize their dreams

The first six years I was kept totally alone. The last six years I had two people staying in the house. The first six years really trained me very well.

You could say she hid there, in the words, an escape within an escape...

Once you get past a certain threshold, everyone's problems are the same: fortifying your island and hiding the heat signature from your fusion reactor.

In our solitariness... great depths are sometimes sounded. Truth hideth in company.

Human nature is the worst possible! Once I lived among ye. From self-decency now I habitate the waste places, a willing outcast; associate of goats, cleaner far, more honest than men.

The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

The horror of falling into utter oblivion is not necessarily the fear of what will happen to us after death but of what it says about our relationships now. It is the fear of not amounting to much in our present relations with others.

She wants to go home, but nobody's home. That's why she lies, broken inside. With no place to go, no place to go, to dry her eyes, broken inside...

Why should i care? Cause you werent there when i was scared. I was so alone.

Unconnected consciousness is destruction's keenest tool against the soul.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Geceleri bile, daha ÅŸimdiden, uykumda matematik yap?yorum. Dün gece örneÄŸin, iki defa uyan?p ka??da kaleme sar?ld?m. Yaln?zl?k hayal alemini, matematik de soyutlama kabiliyetini aç?yor; korkunç ÅŸeyler hayal ediyorum. Hayret, insan nas?l da kendini verdiÄŸi bilimle özdeÅŸleÅŸiyor. -Ali Nesin