Quotes About Isolation

Talk Show Host" I want to, I want to be someone else or I'll explode Floating upon the surface for The birds, the birds, the birds You want me, well fucking well come and find me I'll be waiting with a gun and a pack of sandwiches And nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing You want me, well, come on and break the door down You want me, fucking come on and break the door down I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready...

You want me, well fucking well come and find me I'll be waiting with a gun and a pack of sandwiches And nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing

Because we separate like ripples on a blank shore (in rainbows).

The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy.

As a child, I was abandoned in a story made of trees. Here's the small gasp of this clearing come "upon" "again

His dreams were getting more frightful—rising black swirls of water, cars floating by like river bugs—but he didn't know much about how to build a boat. The steam box was a start, even if he couldn't tell Annie, even though the line between faith and becoming unhinged seemed perilously narrow.

She was in the middle of nowhere, and it was a delicious feeling to know that no one knew where she was.

That's what I thought I wanted. A nice, safe, uneventful life…Safe and uneventful are just other words for lonely. - Matt Harte

he had basically abandoned her in a foreign country without money, credit cards or her passport.

Prison is like high school with knives.

They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

Jeff had learned the wisdom of perversity and made his lonely secret into art.

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every hour holy...

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.

Society is a hospital of incurables

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.

In May, when sea winds pierced our solitudes,I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods.

EnclosedIn a tumultuous privacy of storm.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.

perhaps the most motley assemblage in any quarter of this orb'; to quote another, it was 'a true centre of the diverse varieties and types of mankind, far surpassing the mixed nationalities of Cairo and Constantinople'. The fifth chapter was geographical, an argument for Bombay's physical isolation, with the sea and the mountains separating it from the Marathi-speaking heartland.