Quotes About Isolation

If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.

When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

I have now established myself in a most enviable manner. Those who require something of me must seek me out - I remain apart. I work for no one unless he is a high-ranking personality or a friend.

LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.

It's such a huge playing field, especially with the wind and shifting tides and only three women out. It's almost like you are fending for yourself out there.

Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.

A coward talks to everyone but YOU.

No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.

And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth.

She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights)

Lada made her face stone, her heart a mountain. A mountain that would never be pierced to let cold, clear water flow. "Nothing holds me here.