Quotes About Isolation

Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.

When does the loneliness of old age begin?

Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was so focused on acting [since the age of 8].

I never spent much time with people my own age.

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting

The arctic loneliness of age.

I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.

Gravity": "It's the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.

Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.

My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

I'm lonely, but everyone is lonely So at least I know I'm not alone.

Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.