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Quotes About Isolation

Would it be so bad? To be the last two people in the world? His hand slips around, wraps around Miss Sneezy's limp fingers, and Mr. Whittier says, Why can't the world end the same way it started?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Masticando il suo tabacco, il Mezzano ha sputato sulla moquette macchiata e ha detto che questo edificio umido, queste stanze semibuie, non avevano nulla a che vedere con il ritiro per scrittori che si era immaginato: gente che scrive a mano, con lo sguardo che si perde lungo prati verdi on-dulati; scrittori che mangiano pranzi al sacco, ciascuno nel suo chalet privato. Frutteti di albicocchi e nuvole di petali bianchi sollevati dal vento. Sonnellini pomeridiani all'ombra di castagni. Croquet.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
OK, you are now firing a gun at your imaginary friend. Near 400 gallons of nitroglycerin!
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I am Jack's inflamed sense of rejection
~ Chuck Palahniuk
As pessoas usavam o que chamavam de telefone porque odiavam ficar juntas umas das outras e morriam de medo de ficar sozinhas.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The toughest detail to deal with was the loneliness.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The worst aspect of loneliness was the silence.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Es lo que ocurre en los casos de insomnio. Todo es muy lejano: la copia de la copia de una copia. No puedes tocar nada y nada puede tocarte. El insomnio te distancia de todo.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
My tiny life. My little shit job. My Swedish furniture. I never, no, never told anyone this, but before I met Tyler, I was planning to buy a dog and name it Entourage. This is how bad your life can get.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
He'd never anticipated that power would be this lonely.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
These people who need their television or stereo or radio playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These are my neighbors. These sound-oholics. These quiet-ophobics.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Everyone's in their own personal coma. What
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Zivilisation ist ein Zustand, den ungesellige Eigenbrötler dem Rest der unbeschwerten, familienorientierten Menschheit auferlegen.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Die Avantgarde auf allen Gebieten besteht aus den Einsamen, den Freundlosen, den Uneingeladenen. Jeglicher Fortschritt kommt von den Unbeliebten.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Wie kommuniziert man am besten das Gefühl, tot zu sein … Ja, ich kenne das Wort kommunizieren. Ich bin tot, nicht geistesgestört.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Tyler said he was nobody. Nobody cared if he lived or died, and the feeling was fucking mutual.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Chorar é só o que dá para fazer nesta escuridão asfixiante (...) quando você percebe que tudo o que já fez não passa de lixo.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
La gente usa quelli che chiama telefoni perché odia stare nello stesso luogo insieme, ma ha anche paura di stare sola.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The insomnia distance of everything, a copy of a copy of a copy. You can't touch anything, and nothing can touch you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash. Anything you're ever proud of will be thrown away. And I'm lost inside. This is as close as I've been to sleeping in almost a week.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. If I didn't say anything, people in a group assumed the worst. They cried harder. I cried harder. Look up into the stars and you're gone.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Soy un monstruo invisible, y soy incapaz de amar a nadie. No se sabe lo que es peor.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Podrías ahogarte con tanto silencio.
~ Chuck Palahniuk