Quotes About Isolation

If I was stuck on an island with one artist's discography, it'd probably be Jay-Z's. It would keep me entertained and it has a lot of stories behind it.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.

Through the '80s, nobody cared about Johnny Cash.

We're so stuck in our heads with social media that we don't get to meet people and go out to have a joint experience unless we go to a live event, like the theatre.

Certamente la solitudine senza lettere è una prigione, ed è uno gravissimo supplizio; ma dàgli le lettere, e li è la patria, li è la libertade, li è il piacere.

What sucked was that her room was on the fourth floor of a four-story house because she hated walking past every other room on her way in and out. She was like a latter-day Rapunzel except her hair was only a few inches below her shoulders, slightly fried, not all that blond, and furthermore, who the hell was ever going to climb up to give her a hand? The guy in the wheelchair from school? What she — and Rapunzel, frankly — needed was a decent ladder.

As the crow flies. That's how she liked to walk. So what if she had nowhere to go? So what if no one on earth knew or probably cared where she was or when she'd get home? That wasn't the point. It didn't mean she had to take the long way. She was starting a new school in the morning, and she meant to put as much distance between herself and tomorrow as she could. Walking fast didn't stop the earth's slow roll, but sometimes it felt like it could.

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.

gluttony. Six weeks I have been at sea, and every wave looking just like the one before, in wet procession.

There are 1.3 billion human beings in the world who subsist on less than a dollar a day and have yet to make their first phone call, let alone send an email. Is

I can go years thinking that it seems impossible that I will ever satisfy that appetite again and then it is easy to satisfy and no one notices or cares, nor does it make me happy, when loneliness surrounds me like water I've already drowned in without dying.

El horario de la oficina era el ataúd de cristal dentro del que prefería seguir sujeto, como una Bella Durmiente del bosque de los números, preservado de la vida y sus manzanas envenenadas.

She abandoned me. This was devastating. And the paradox was that the moment she abandoned me, she began to be with me at all times, constantly abandoning me wherever I would go, whatever I would do and with whomever I was. And the pain was unbearable. Hence, I decided to abandon everyone and everything, remaining with nothing, doing nothing and being absolutely alone. Well, the paradox is that she is still there!

They don't guards me! They make me be dam' fool clowns for Neptuners to laugh at. 'Get sky hook! Get bucket steam-ice!' That's what them lizards-men holler at me.

They found Caddo in the lounge of Oridin's house chewing on a book of logarithms. His mind was gone. He could only babble figures. His fingers twitched with cramps from writing with a pencil and punching the keys of the calculating machine.

Heresy comes so often not by spreading falsehoods but by the assertion of a single truth, and running that truth in isolation from any balancing

Rejection is one of the worst, most neglected and most common wounds.

Life is a dinner party without a host. And, frequently, without a dinner party either.

I'd love to get youOn a slow boat to China.All to myself alone.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.