Philip Sidney Quotes

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was.

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.

I have contact with no one involved in the trial.

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

I don't belong in the world. That's what it is. Something separates me from other people.

I feel like I'm in my own world: in the world but not a part of it.

Those reflective moments for me usually come from loneliness and separation from people.

I live an isolated life, and I rarely meet others.

Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.

If I'm going to feel estranged and alienated and away from home I don't want anyone interrupting it to debate which berries to have in their pancakes.

We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.