Isolation

I think everybody who has lived and worked in more than one country is going to wind up feeling permanently torn, feeling no place is entirely home. It's both a gain and a loss - Susan Neiman, http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2010/02/interview-obama-moral

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone - Lord Byron

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them - Robert Anton Wilson

You have people walking down the street listening to iPods, seemingly oblivious to the world...more and more, we're alone in public - Mark Dery, cultural critic, Time, 14/11/05

When are we going to turn our malady of separateness around - Suzi Gablik http://www.lapismagazine.org/archives/L02/gablik.html

Visit us, please, from a previous century and you'll see us walking down the streets, wired cockleshells in ears, jabbering like lunatics in a Victorian asylum - from David Hare's "It all started 96 hours after 9/11"

There is almost as much loneliness among the married as the unmarried - Theodore Zeldin, Intimate History of Humanity, p60

There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't yet met - William Butler Yeats

The stimulus of other people is necessary for clear thoughts and for knowing where one wants to go - Theodore Zeldin, Intimate History of Humanity, p69

The stimulus of other people is necessary for clear thoughts and for knowing where one wants to go - Theodore Zeldin, Intimate History of Humanity, p69