Quotes About Isolation

What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're old enough to go to school.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

So I just sat in bed for six months - I literally didn't leave the house - and it was the first time that I'd actually experienced being depressed. I'd be sad on and off but I'd never experienced actual depression. Like, crying for no reason. It was really horrible.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

Oh, my God, I literally only have, like, one friend that I'm actually completely, like, myself with.

One of the things I find really hard and view as a massive drag... is that I'm losing my ability to be completely anonymous.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

One of the things about Fleetwood Mac is, when we're not together, we don't talk a lot or keep in touch. We keep a healthy distance.

One time, I took a woman on a deserted island, and we lived like Mother Nature for 10 days.

Having cancer is a lonely experience. It is the one time in your life that you cannot ask those closest to you, 'What should I do?' It's too heavy a burden to place on another person. This is your life, your decision, and cancer kills.

It's easy to defend, in my opinion, when you play one-on-one.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

I have experienced a lot of online bullying because I am homeschooled.

I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot of friends you never call? I don't have time for new friends, and I don't want to be friends with someone only online.

Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

I'm an only child, so I don't even have nieces or nephews.

Because I was an only child, I don't like many people around, and that's why I don't have any servants.

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

As an only child, I may have been alone a lot, but I was never lonely. My invisible friends were my constant companions.

I was an only child, so I was alone a lot.

I grew up an only child, and I always felt as if I didn't fit in. In middle school, in grammar school, and even high school, I just didn't feel like I fit in.