Quotes About Isolation

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

In Fromm's view, the unconscious is a social creation, maintained because of the deep abhorrence each of us has of our own freedom and the social isolation we fear may result from a fuller expression of our authentic, personal experience.

When a man practices biblical openness with other men, he moves from secrecy to candor, from isolation to connection, and from pretense to authenticity.

Ironically, the more we crave to possess and dominate the world and others, the deeper and more unbearable becomes the chasm of our own emptiness.

Life gets boring with only humans to talk to.

People change, they end up having nothing to say to each other, even if they were were best friends a year earlier.

People change, they end up having nothing to say to each other, even if they were were best friends a year earlier. Amy in Tape.

They solved the problem of coexistence through the use of individual stereo headphones.

think suicides are the saddest deaths of all. It means someone has decided that life has no part for them to play any more.

When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me.

I've narrowed it down to nobody

It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.

Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41)

A work of art gives testimony to what it is to be a human being. It bears witness, it extracts meaning. A work of art is also the clearest nonphysical way that emotions is communicated from one human being to another. The emotion isn't referred to; it is re-created. The emotion shows us that our most private feelings are in fact shared feelings. And this offer us some relief from our existential isolation. (p: 10)

Anyone out without the excuse of a dog should be handcuffed and searched for loneliness.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

When I asked if a guy so obviously crazy would have a history of mental problems, including institutionalization, neither of them believed he necessarily did. In contrast to the brutal and primitive murderer they described, Liebert and Berberich agreed that the public "Ted" obviously was highly credible, which suggested to them that he was well-concealed within his community and circle of friends. For that reason, he likely would be difficult to isolate as a suspect.

The phone she left behind in its foggy balloon is just recording the empty aluminum canoe now, and one blurry corner of the little cooler. But it's listening in its muted way. What it hears is the front part of Lotte's scream. She doesn't get to finish it.

Jade pats her pocket for the second sandwich she knows is just as gone as the first. It's less actually looking for it, more showing the world that she's hungry, that it can deliver her some nuggets or a burrito or fishsticks if it wants. She won't tell anybody.

Some people just aren't fit for human company."... "And some people just don't want it.

I was glad I'd never had any kids on the reservation, because this is what happens. They drive off every road they can, and then, because it hasn't started hurting yet, whichever one can still walk does, to the nearest light, his face packed with windshield glass.

And as he quite rightly went on to say . . . For man has closed himself up, till he sees thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.