Isaac Asimov Quotes

The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there.

Loneliness is always there, it's a phase that comes and goes and it is a very difficult phase.

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

My private life's quite sad.

I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough

The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing, no one waiting for her. That no matter how far she walked, how carefully she searched, how much she wanted to find the person she was looking for, she was alone" - The Forgotten Garden

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.

I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet. When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.