Eugenio Montale said this quote

No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

~ Eugenio Montale

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

~ Eugenio Montale

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

~ Eugenio Montale