“I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it’s my head I’m locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.”— Alex Garland, amazon.com
“Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for dinner or coffee. And it has been like that from the beginning.”— Vincent Van Gogh, webexhibits.org
“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.”— Marian Keyes, amazon.com
“I've never wanted to seem weak because nobody likes people who are sad all the time.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“Socially isolating an individual, failing to let them have visitors.”— Natasha Tracy, healthyplace.com
“We love as we learn to distinguish a separate "you" and me. Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and the isolation of the separateness.”— Judith Viorst, amazon.com
“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“When I first moved to London, I felt very homesick and yearned after the countryside a lot. Because London's hard. It's a big place, and it's lonely. It takes a while to get into it. But once I got into the flow of it and started to grow up, I realised that my home is wherever I am.”— Toby Kebbell, brainyquote.com
“He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.”— J.K Rowling, amazon.com
“The human species is undergoing radical change. The Internet is almost a test run for this change. I don't think the Internet, in this sense, is such a major deal at all. The Internet is a way to practice what it is that we're going to have to do for real, which is deal with privacy when we can all…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com