Quotes About Isolation

These words I write keep me from total madness.

I guess lesbianism wasn't so rampant in those days, they would've gotten a bunk with each other and just left me alone, you know. Which would have been just as well, you know..

La monotonia, un lavoro fisso che non portava a niente, anime che cercavano altre anime per sfuggire ad imbarazzanti silenzi ed una città senza stimoli che cercava di camuffare la noia dietro falsi sorrisi, musica assordante e belle gambe inavvicinabili. Niente di buono. Ma era incredibile come la gente riusciva ad adattarsi

now it's computers and more computers and soon everybody will have one, 3-year-olds will have computers and everybody will know everything about everybody else long before they meet them. nobody will want to meet anybody else ever again and everybody will be a recluse like I am now

sometimes there is a dark cloud that never passes. It stays forever!" "Well, that's death.

And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom or loneliness

Dentro y solo de nuevo, y la locura de la noche la locura del día.

Sinceramente, horrorizava-me a vida, aquilo que um tipo tinha de fazer só para poder comer, dormir e andar vestido. De maneira que fiquei na cama a beber. Quando bebemos, o mundo continua lá fora, mas por instantes deixa de nos sufocar.

I don't like people

ama genellikle, o en yoÄŸun ve tutkulu anlarda, bir kez daha sinema salonunda etraf?ndaki çiftler kumrular gibi f?s?lda??rken elindeki patlam?? m?s?r torbas?yla bir ba??na oturan yaln?z adam olmay? arzulard?m.

Give a man four walls long enough and it is possible for him to own the world.

Attenti a quelli che cercano continuamente la folla, da soli non sono nessuno.

I feel for the lonely, I sense their need, but I also feel that the lonely are for one another and that they should find each other and leave me alone.

under bridges is only air.

No need to act all hoity-toity. Aloofness is a bore. We're all lonely in one way or another.

I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects...

El aislamiento también es un elemento importante en la modificación de las especies por medio de la selección natural. En un área limitada o aislada, si no es muy grande, serán generalmente casi uniformes las condiciones orgánicas e inorgánicas de la vida, de modo que la selección natural tenderá a modificar de la misma manera a todos los individuos que varíen en la misma especie.

The natural history of this archipelago is very remarkable; it seems to be a little world within itself.

The horror is other people. The things they think up to do to you.

By now he had stared at the window through a late summer so hot and wet that the air both day and night felt like breathing through a dishrag, so damp it caused fresh sheets to sour under him and tiny black mushrooms to grow overnight from the limp pages of the book on his bedside table. Inman suspected that after such long examination, the grey window had finally said all it had to say.

I wonder what people talk about who've destroyed their lives with addictions other than books and politics and money and war.

Inman felt like God's most marauded bantling.

It was simple, and not one she'd ever found the strength to follow. The idea was, the you you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are. And also maybe something about the great reluctance with which we let go of our belief in a just God.

It seemed a poor swap to find that the only way one might keep from fearing death was to act numb and set apart as if dead already, with nothing much left of yourself but a hut of bones