Quotes About Isolation

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50 000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.

If naebody care for me, I'll care for naebody.

You know what a cubicle basically says? It basically says, like, "You know what? We don't think you're smart enough for an office, but we don't want you to look at anybody."

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary -- it's always imaginary -- world in which I would like to live.

I began to get a feeling ... of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

Magnificent desolation.

There were actually 4 people in the Apollo 11 spacecraft ... but we got hungry.

Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation.

No woman has ever stepped on Little America -- and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.

A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold.

I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

El aislamiento nos hacía más dueños de nuestras carencias".

En suma: si decía que estaba solo, no era más que porque no tenía con quién hablar.

La escena, de por sí, me deprimía. Encender el televisor... Abandonar el mundo, la riqueza y variedad de la vida en ese mundo en el que yo ya no tenía nada que hacer, para encerrarme en la fascinación idiotizada de las imágenes [...]

In the absence of significant others, I had the liberating feeling of being absent from myself.

Artforum hasn't arrived. A state of deep melancholy has taken hold of me. I see the world through a gray veil, not even the best of jokes can exact a smile from me. I could die right now and I wouldn't notice the difference. Or maybe I would.

Debería haber pensado antes en tomar un taxi, porque no hay como desplazarse en un vehículo manejado por otro para salir de uno mismo.

Cuando uno lo ha abandonado todo, puede decirse que le queda la contemplación del vacío.

Liars lie. That's what they do. Lying, and in so doing trying to make me lie to myself. Trying to make me not trust my family. Liars lie by cutting you loose from what you thought was so and persuading you this other thing they are waving in front of you is the new truth. ... Liars want you off balance and alone, so you can drown in self-doubt.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

A sensitive spirit wounded by those who should have nurtured, sees all things in a false color, is proud of its own isolation, magnifies its defects, is unfitted for the intercourse of the world and as far as the necessities will allow retires within itself and imagines that all others are more fortunate, more deserving and more happy.

Reading is another way we survive. It helps to know where we came from, how we got here. And most of all, for me, even though these low and empty islands are all I have ever known, when I open the front cover of a new book, it's like a door, and I can travel far away in place and time.

They like the god stuff. It makes them feel special, and it makes them feel less lonely about having been left behind at the end of things