Quotes About Isolation

I grew up as an only child, so I like being by myself. So I train predominantly - 98 percent of the time - by myself.

I was an only child.

My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old.

There's only one thing that's kind of hard about being a wife or a girlfriend of somebody in this business. It's that really the only people that you really know are musicians.

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

The only time I am seen in public is when I go to work. When I go home to England, I never leave my home.

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

I talk to people now, and they thought I was so confident. I was doing all this awesome stuff onstage, and they didn't realize I was going through so much loneliness and hurt backstage. It was like high school.

Sometimes it's isolating, but just being in the music industry that is just dominated by men, I think it means I have to be comfortable and confident in myself and not really care that people think I'm bossy and opinionated and also try and balance that energy.

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey

My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.

As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.

Egotism itself, which is so necessary to a proper sense of human dignity, is entirely the result of indoor life. 

I did not want any external influence in my life. You know how independent I am by nature. I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.

Other people are quite dreadful.  The only possible society is oneself.

Upon the walls of the lonely locked room where he had spent so much of his boyhood, he had hung with his own hands the terrible portrait whose changing features showed him the real degradation of his life, and in front of it had draped the purple-and-gold pall as a curtain.

How alone I am in life! How terribly alone!

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis. (In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)

I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.

From that time on she lived in lonely caves.

Errabat nudo per loca sola pede. She was wandering barefoot through lonely places.

You will be separated from yourself and yet be alive.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

he was alone in the endless night that rested over the whole earth, alone in heaven and on earth and among the living and the dead. This he had always been . . . .