Quotes About Isolation

People buy pathetic substitutes for community—sound waves in a speaker, particles bombarding a screen—all pretending to be friends or the folks next door. The vacuum they leave when the screen goes dark, when the recording ends, is filled with a loneliness worse than ever before." "What's the answer?" "Flesh and blood touching flesh and blood. Life touching life. Yours, mine, everybody's.

Hell is being alone for all eternity. Alone, unloved, unloving.

What is the measurable cost of depriving isolated citizens of access to metropolitan resources? How much are we willing to pay for a good society?

People who live in private spaces contribute actively to the dilution and corrosion of the public space. In other words, they exacerbate the circumstances which drove them to retreat in the first place.

What exactly is a 'gated community' and why does it matter?

I woke up feeling alone, so lonely. The night before, I had cried myself to sleep. I lay there on the floor, listening to the tube trains passing beneath me. I thought, All those hundreds and thousands and millions of people. London, London - I hate you. I picked myself up and got ready.

I smell of decay, the acrid smell of a lonely person, a person with no respect or regard for themselves.

We had not meant our choice to cut us off from our past, but it did. We had only the present and the future to think of in Lyme.

Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. Loneliness is small, solitude is large. Loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. Loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nobody answers; solitude has its roots in the great silence of eternity.

If you meet god, tell him to just leave me alone!

You went alone. You were right beside those irreplacable things...yet you couldn't bear to immerse yourself together in sorrow with them. So instead...you ran away so that your own malice could burn within you.

Among thousands of comrades and ten thousand enemies, only you... only you made me forget my dream

It was like being a sheep wandering into a pack of wolves./ A unilateral... fear of the unknown.

It's lonely up in the top

Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs.

Amish?" Darly said. "Is that a genetic anomaly or infectious disease?

The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know. Just so much.

Staring in the darkness, trying to sleep. My body was aching with tiredness. My limbs were numb. My sightless eyes were crazed with light/ I was dying of oblivion, but it wouldn't come. I didn't think I've ever sleep again.

his eyes took in the barren slopes and the scattered boulders and the lonley gray road windingits way into the fading hills,and i could feel him thinking to himself this is no place to die

I used to come here on my own sometimes... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness...

I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button — click — and shut myself down. Turn off my heart, turn off my mind, turn off my body — just lie there, senseless, like a dormant tree in winter, waiting for the spring to return.

Det finns dagar då allt ljus har slocknat och alla du möter är kalla och fulla av hat. De bryr sig inte om någon-ting. Och i dag var det en sådan dag.

I wanted it to stop. I wanted everything to stop: the noise, the fear, the stink, the pain, the sickening ache in my belly. I didn't want to feel anything anymore. I didn't want to do anything. I didn't want to be here. I didn't want to be scared. I didn't want to be brave. I didn't want to be strong or weak or smart or stupid or precious or careless or dead... I didn't want to be anything.

toboggan full of winter gear across a frozen lake, where the sense of isolation is so great I feel like the only man on Earth;