Quotes About Isolation

He cut you off from your family, your friends. He whittled your world right down, didn't he, and hammered at you to be grateful for it." He had, of course he had. She hadn't seen it happening because it was so gradual—until it was just her life.

He has a need for attention, to have attention focused on him—for better or worse. The worst punishment I can give him is to ignore him, which I've done, fairly successfully

L]oneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding views which others find inadmissible."29

At Ilinskoye, Serge left the room in which his young sister-in-law had died completely untouched, locking a door that would never again be opened by anyone but himself.

Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.

I am ready to be alone.

I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

I care about strangers when they're abstractions but feel almost nothing when they are literally in front of me. They seem like unnamed characters in a poorly written novel about myself, which was poorly written by me.

I wake up, I feel the inescapable oppression of the sunlight pouring through my bedroom window, and I am struck by the fact that I am alone. And that everyone is alone. And that everything I understood seven hours ago has already changed, and that I have to learn everything again.

I'm still alive, but I feel myself dying, person by person by person by person.

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway," sci-fi novelist Ray Bradbury told an audience of college students in 1995. "Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

His separation from the rest of society is beyond vast. But we are not working within the parameters of reality; we are working within the parameters of televised sport. And that's a critical difference. It essentially makes Ralph Sampson a tall, emotive, representational nonhuman slave. And within these parameters, four thousand rebounds don't mean shit.

Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

Everyone's in their own personal coma.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.

That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.

The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don't recognize as real.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.