Astronaut Quote by J. G. Ballard

“But I wasn’t lonely. Loneliness, I think, has very little to do with location. It’s a state of mind. In the center of every…

— Chris Hadfield

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

— Richard Preston

“Absent- that was what he was: so absent from everything most densely real and near to those about him that it sometimes startled him…

— Edith Wharton

“He turned his eyes to the skyline as was his wont. As he gazed at the still point of the universe, at the hinterland…

— T. Afsin

“For a moment, he thought he sensed, beneath the visible world, some blind infrastructure connecting the two of them, or the three of them,…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“But the longing within him had grown even greater, the overpowering need to be alone. Locked in an empty room, entirely unwitnessed, silent and…

— Philip K. Dick

“There was enough space out here that it was easy to lose sight of each other.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

“When he watched TV, all he saw was an image of his own face, with a mysterious empty city in the background.”

— Lev Grossman

“His absence was a presence. Who knew an empty space could take up so much room.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“It was a rare brain that could feel strongly about anything, if it wasn't close in space, close in time, near at hand, within…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“So Alex was counting the days until he would step on the holy soil of Boston, ready to breathe the cold Atlantic air and…

— George Sorbane