Quotes about Isolation

I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets godawful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.

And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they've gone to the silence, the suppers of their own mystery.

Well, now you know me. You know I don't have close relationships with anybody any more - I don't know what to do with these things. I hold things in my hand like pieces of crap and don't know where to put it down.

After all a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

Without ships, we cannot live.

The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

Avoid getting into isolated groups because you will miss the move of God. Shun cliques because they are the bundles. Endeavor to stay in the mainstream of the move of God.

You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.

When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.