Quotes About Isolation

Dil bu karanl???n içinde ya?ayabilirmi? gibi görünen tek ?ey olacak.

Tepeci?in ard?nda yeni mahallelere ula?aca??m? m? sanm??t?m, nedir? Iss?zl???n içinde buldum kendimi.

Gece yava? yava? geliyor, ?niyor. Çukur yerlere dolma?a ba?lad? bile. ... Dil bu karanl???n içinde ya?ayabilirmi? gibi görünen tek ?ey olacak. Hiçbir a??rl???n, hiçbir gerçekli?in kalmad??? bu yerde. Karanl???n gerçekli?e benzer tek yan?, konu?abilmesi olacak.

In this journey we call life, we are all ultimately alone.

Bull stares into the hazy distance as though the right words are out there somewhere and all he has to do is claim them as his own. Sometimes it gets so quiet in Gungee you can hear conversations from a hundred years ago breathing on a gust of wind.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

The idea of getting a, you know, syringe full of heroin and shooting it in the vein under my cock right now seems like almost a productive act.

How naive and foolish the young are to imagine that they understand the loneliness of great age, the outliving of your contemporaries, anyone to whom your century of memory might make any sense.

If you wall a country or a civilization, you misshape it, too, as certainly as if you strangled it with bindings. You have built the wall not just outside but inside, and what you have walled up will be grotesque and stunted, whether you look at it from the moon or elsewhere.

we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.

what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

Despite being more connected than ever before, we're not particularly generous toward, or understanding of, one another, preferring to hide behind denial and personal bias.

He and the second wife must have made a very close, self-contained unit--two people moving through life as if in a thinly membraned bubble, venturing out separately for practical purposes but neither of them whole unless they were together. People who didn't need many friends or outside activities, who found complete fulfillment in each other.

AMERICAN HERO The man stepped right up, feet on top of a case of bottled beer. He placed his neck into a rope noose that was strung from the light fixture. He pulled it tight and leaped to the floor. He hung for less than a minute, thinking nothing but the pain as he spun slowly in a circle; the spots in his eyes were bright red when he took a palmed razor blade and cut the rope, falling chest-first into the kitchen sink. Then he packed his lunch for work.

For a while I felt very alone sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.

I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.

When I was a child, there's one thing I said: 'I never want to be alone.' That's what I would say. I don't want to be alone.

I would go through these cycles of being really, really focused on work, and not being around anyone, to being around everyone. And that could be distracting. It was nothing or everything.