Quotes About Isolation

Lì, sotto le cupe luci fluorescenti del mio minuscolo monolocale, non c'era modo di sfuggire alla verità. Nella vita reale, non ero altro che un eremita asociale. Un recluso. Un nerd con una carnagione cadaverica e un'ossessione per la cultura pop. Ero soltanto un'altra anima perduta, triste, solitaria, che sprecava la sua vita su un videogioco osannato da tutti.

My life wasn't so bad. At least that's what I kept telling myself, in a vain attempt to stave off the epic loneliness I now felt.

Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe—a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most.

Salir es algo que está muy sobrevalorado. Almanaque de Anorak, capítulo 17, versículo 32

come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in the cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.

containing a single person strapped into a high-end

If there was a bright center to the universe, I was on the planet it was farthest from.

Salir es algo que está muy sobrevalorado. Almanaque de Anorak

Creé OASIS porque nunca me sentí a gusto en el mundo real. No conectaba bien con la gente. Tuve miedo durante toda la vida. Hasta el momento en el que supe que llegaba a su fin. Fue entonces cuando me di cuenta de que por muy aterradora y dolorosa que pueda ser, también es el unico lugar donde puede encontrarse la verdadera felicidad. Porque la realidad es real. ¿Entiendes?

Sentado sozinho no escuro, assistindo ao programa em meu laptop, sempre imaginava que eu vivia naquela casa quente e bem iluminada, e que aquelas pessoas sorridentes e compreensivas eram a minha família. Imaginava que não havia nada tão errado no mundo que não pudéssemos resolver até o final de um único episódio de meia hora (ou talvez em dois, se fosse algo muito sério).

I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life, right up until I knew it was ending. That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.

You know you've totally screwed up your life when your whole world turns to shit and the only person you have to talk to is your system agent software!

We lived in and out of our flight bags, they being our true and only home. Thus, if we were not actually flying or sleeping, we were often lonely and at a loss to occupy ourselves.

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

Our drifting home had no rudder to guide it, no sail to give it speed. We

Lo más impresionante de aquellos días, y más todavía de aquellas noches, era la soledad, el profundo sentimiento de soledad, de aislamiento, de saberse sin ningún habitante a quién sabe cuántos kilómetros a la redonda;

Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another...

Individualism as such, as the isolated action of a person alone in a social environment, must disappear in Cuba. Individualism tomorrow should be the proper utilization of the whole individual, to the absolute benefit of the community.

The death of the entrepreneur is solitude.

He realized the shipwreck had already happened and that he was floating on a raft of ruins.

Bombentrichter und Gräben haben einen engen Horizont. Er reicht nicht weiter als einen Handgranatenwurf.

Aún con todas sus imperfecciones, una de las grandes ideas del hombre ha sido siempre la de retirarse a una celda para ponerse allí, como centinela solitario

La mécanisation de l'homme avait fait de l'Europe un désert.

En mer il n'y a pas de tavernes.