Quotes About Isolation

the entropy of an isolated system always increases, and that when two systems are joined together, the entropy of the combined system is greater than the sum of the entropies of the individual systems.

In space, no one can hear you scream; and in a black hole, no one can see you disappear.

Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape.

That is why heroes are always so tragic, in the end. They are alone.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't.

This inhuman place makes human monsters.

I don't like people. They fuck me up.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it.

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.

Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.

He walked out of nowhere toward nowhere, a man from another time who, it seemed, had reached a point of pointless ending.

You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.

everyone is dead and this is hell.

The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.

I don't like people. They fuck me up