Quotes About Isolation

I find it curious that I never heard any astronaut say that he wanted to go to the Moon so he would be able to look back and see the Earth. We all wanted to see what the Moon looked like close up. Yet, for most of us, the most memorable sight was not of the Moon but of our beautiful blue and white home, moving majestically around the sun, all alone and infinite black space.

An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her growing larger not smaller; she felt as though it would grow so large it would suffocate her just as surely as the sea would have

After a while the fear became a constant, cold companion, a simple fact of existence.

She had never been afraid of the dark, but then she had never known a dark like this before.

and all they could do was sit, sleep, eat, and be reminded day after day, night after night, of their disease and eventual death.

Deve farcela con le sue forze." "Può darsi che sia vero, ma questo non significa che debba restare solo.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we should have people standing in the corners of our rooms.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.

No one understands the lonely perfection of my dreams.

We've all been there, that deserted island called regret.

Lost souls, with nowhere to go, nursed their coffees and read old newspapers they'd found left on the benches.

They don't know what it's like. Inside. For them it's only fun, even though I tell them it isn't. You see I don't delete. Anything. Ever.

Archie was getting seriously tired of being underground all the time.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

When you talked you involved other people . . . you crept back out of the unbearable loneliness of experience.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

Sweetness and Night Long past indignant at the loss of dignity, almost amused by it, but not, every moment of the day a strip search in public, every breath a punishment for what? she couldn't say, which makes her no less penitent, sitting forward, head bowed, in the chair she can't get out of without help, which is itself another punishment,

Because when on a raw and frosty morning I get up at five o'clock and stand shivering my belly off on the stone floor and all the rest still have another hour to snooze before the bells go, I slink downstairs through all the corridors to the big outside door with a permit running-card in my fist, I feel like the first and last man in the world, both at once, if you can believe what I'm trying to say.

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

I give myself strength by staying away from any music.

I'm afraid you'll have to take up art. Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special.