Quotes About Isolation

Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

Trópico se vistió de luto un día, fango tomó color de sangre seca, niebla en neblina erré, la mente hueca, gris en el corazón, alma vacía

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

It is lonely, being an evil alien in disguise.

I am the only being whose doom No tongue would ask no eye would mourn I never caused a thought of gloom A smile of joy since I was born In secret pleasure -- secret tears This changeful life has slipped away As friendless after eighteen years As lone as on my natal day.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there 's a pair of us—don't tell! They 'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!

A dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.'" "But why not employ them?" said Rose, who was not learned in Byron; "you have a home." "Such as it is." "And relations.

Adventure most unto itselfThe Soul condemned to be—Attended by a single HoundIts own identity.

But never met this FellowAttended or aloneWithout a tighter breathingAnd Zero at the Bone—

This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me—The simple News that Nature told—With tender Majesty.

That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognising that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?

The soul "itself by itself," could tell all it wanted if it would be true to its sublimer isolation.

He was accustomed to seeing without benefit of light, becoming, over the years, an expert of sorts. The years in prison had also boosted the acuity of his hearing such that he could almost hear someone thinking. You did both a lot in prison: listening and thinking.

At night, the prison cells hold the darkness of a cave but for odd shapes here and there.

My springs is getting rusty, sleeping single like I do.

You carry this pain around inside all day and all night long. No way to beat it--no way. But when I started getting high, I was cool, and it didn't bother me. And I wasn't lonely then, it was all right. And the chicks--I could handle them, they couldn't reach me. And I didn't know I was hooked--until I was hooked.

When my bed get empty, make me feel awful mean and blue.

It disappointed Jim that none of his fellow prisoners was interested in the war. It would have helped to keep up their spirits, a task which Jim was finding more and more difficult.

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

Parking was well on the way to becoming the British population's greatest spiritual need.

Human beings today ... are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.