Quotes About Isolation

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough

I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, its only you. To an extent, youre all alone.

I'm up all night against my will My medicine won't let me feel anything at all The doctor gave me sleeping pills and I took one Then I feel all alone, sleeping like a stone.

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife.

I don't know why I still feel this pit in my stomach whenever I get a moment to think. I know what the pit is, too; I feel lonely. But I'm not alone, I keep telling myself.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.

Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.

Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

The more I swear I'm happy the more I'm feeling alone

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.

I'm so accustomed to being alone.

Being alone is very difficult.

I don't like being alone.

All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.