Quotes About Isolation

they were each grateful to retire to separate cabins and try to rationalize their thoughts.

Life was, in short, ridiculously easy and for a while at least they were able to cope with the problems of aimlessness and isolation by deciding to ignore them.

Then why did you ask me?' it screamed. 'I just wanted something to talk to,' said Marvin.

Kendini afallam??, yapayaln?z ve sevgisiz hissediyordu.

Unfortunately I got stuck on the Earth for rather longer than I intended

The other two-thirds stayed firmly at home and lived full, rich and happy lives until they were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.

When you're young, and just emerging from the four walls of home into the wide world outside, that's exactly when you feel so small, like Arthur Dent, all alone in the universe. That's when you act as wildly two-headed as Zaphod. That's when you really need someone to say 'Don't Panic'. It's the perfect age to mutter a heartfelt 'Oh no, not again,' a phrase so much wiser than today's 'Whatever'.

His eyes passed over the solid shapes of the instruments and computers that lined the bridge. They winked away innocently at him. He stared out at the stars, but none of them said a word.

Bir Ä°sviçre Peyniri Bitkisiyle bile yeterince uzun süre yaln?z kald???nda kendini rahats?z hissedip utanmay? baÅŸarabilen Arthur için bu an, kesintisiz bir ayd?nlanma an?yd?.

Pensar en que 'estamos solos', sólo porque a ti nunca se te ha ocurrido que existe otro modo de estar.

Görüyorsun ya hiçbir zaman 'Evrende yaln?z?z' diye düÅŸünmemelerinin nedeni, bu akÅŸama kadar Evrenden haberleri bile olmamas?yd?. Bu akÅŸama kadar.

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have a chaperone.

A steel door closed and the captain was on his own again. He hummed quietly and mused to himself, lightly fingering his notebook of verses. "Hmmm," he said, "counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor …" He considered this for a moment, and then closed the book with a grim smile. "Death's too good for them," he said.

Ru ... ra ... wah ... who? He finally managed to say and lapsed into a frantic kind of silence. He was feeling the effects of having not said anything to anybody for as long as he could remember.

The ship had come sweeping in over a dark and somber landscape, a terrain so desperately far removed from the heat and light of its parent sun, Sol, that it seemed like a map of the psychological scars of the mind of an abandoned child.

Where I am, it is always night.

They took her flesh from her, to wear as a cloak, and her blood to drink, leaving only her shadow

Here's the thing about darkness: It turns the mind inward.

I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.

If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget sex or politics or religion. Or even failure. Loneliness is what clears out a room.

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be [email protected].

I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.

MID TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.

Abe: Wise hermit cast adrift on asteroid for thousands of years; has developed odd code languages for everyday actions; lonely but not bitter; his heart is cryogenically frozen, and he must search the universe pursuing the Thawer.