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Quotes About Isolation

It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction.
~ Alastair Bruce, Wall Of Days
I wonder if this is how it feels to grow old. Knowing that time is still passing but you're no longer a part of it.
~ Ryan Galloway, Biome
The emptiness, the way his heels rang on the asphalt, was satisfying, emphasised his aloneness. A man alone, alone late at night with no one to say he should be home in bed.
~ Dan Davin
The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.
~ Chad le Clos
I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.
~ Douglas Coupland
There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry inner-verse.
~ James St. James
Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.
~ Marco Rubio
In football, I don't have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many... Most of the time, I'm alone.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
~ Ingrid Betancourt
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
~ Herbert V. Prochnow
We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
~ William James
City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...
~ T. S. Eliot
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.
~ John Huston
People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.
~ Andy Warhol
We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.
~ Aldous Huxley
The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.
~ John Zerzan
A lot of people spend their time just floating/ We were victims together but lonely.
~ Jack Johnson
I never fall apart, because I never fall together.
~ Andy Warhol
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
~ Lily Tomlin
The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.
~ Mason Cooley
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre