Quotes About Isolation

Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation — there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man

We face eternity now. We have no universe left, no outside phenomena, no emotions, no passions. Nothing but ourselves and thought. We face an eternity of introspection, when all through history we have never known what to do with ourselves on a rainy Sunday.

The clown's eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. "But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship.

Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.

Where the stars are scattered thinly,' quoted Barr, 'And the cold of space seeps in.

But now, Earthmen are all so coddled, so enwombed in their imprisoning caves of steel, that they are caught forever.

Subjective matter of opinion, Gaal. If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.

We of Solaria alone learned how life was to be lived. We did not herd and flock like animals, as they did on Earth, as they did on other worlds, as they did even on the other Spacer worlds. We lived each alone, with robots to help us, viewing each other electronically as often as we wished, but coming within natural sight of one another only rarely.

He was thirty-two. Not old—but he felt old. His body, whatever its mutant mental powers, was physically weak. Every star! Every star he could see—and every star he couldn't see. It must all be his! Revenge on all. On a humanity of which he wasn't a part. On a Galaxy in which he didn't fit.

My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required.

La última vez que salí al aire libre fue hace tres años.

as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required....the presence of others can only inhibit this process, since creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred...foolish ones, which you naturally do not care to display.

Ideally there should be no detectable connection between any two Observers, so that the loss of one would not entail the loss of any other.

Se você tivesse nascido numa cela e crescido num corredor, trabalhando num cubículo, com férias numa varanda repleta de gente, ao sair para o ar livre, sem nada além do céu sobre si, talvez lhe desse um ataque de nervos.

If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.

In Russia, receiving a letter was such a rare phenomenon that any member of the family who got his hands on it first opened it.

Earthmen are all so coddled, so enwombed in their imprisoning caves of steel, that they are caught forever.

But it was Paradise in one way," said Steiner at last. "How?" "All the time we were there the woman did not speak.

I don't bother with the outside myself. The last time I was in the open was three years ago. You see it once, you know and that's all there is to it.

There is no such thing as love. Give me a cigarette. In the camp, people climbed on one another like worms.

The years separated them as effectively as a partition.

My mother has a saying: 'One is none.

I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude.

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.