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Quotes About Isolation

I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression Hide in sleep Damage myself in dreams Wake up older, slightly more used.
~ Henry Rollins
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm.
~ Henry Rollins
I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself. I'm the only one I would put through this. Wheels and wings, The ride is everything. I'm all I've got. I'm all I can take. Another day has destroyed a part of me. So far so good.
~ Henry Rollins
You can find me in the frozen mood section.
~ Henry Rollins
I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free
~ Henry Rollins
Is it a shame that I can't accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else's world?
~ Henry Rollins
I don't want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to think about them. Ones you love who don't love you, ones who are dead or hate you, ones who you think about but never get to be with. I like people but when I get too close, it fucks me up and I can't get things done.
~ Henry Rollins
Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.
~ Henry Rollins
I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.
~ Henry Rollins
Damn, I was lonely that autumn. I wished for a girl I could hang out with. I never really did anything to meet girls, too shy, too fucked up. Autumn makes me think of women.
~ Henry Rollins
They left like you knew they would. They went away and you fell like a stone. All the way to the bottom of your room. I see you, yes I see you. Sitting in your chair, hating every minute of it. Falling like a stone without even moving. It hurt you to know that you were right about all the shit you wanted to be wrong about. They always leave you. You put yourself in the right place to get left.
~ Henry Rollins
Too sick and freaked out not to want a bullet for every passer by, too sick and freaked out to breathe, too sick and freaked out to care, too sick and freaked out to think of anything but the annihilation of my mind and denial of my life. So sick and freaked out that I think everyone is my friend.
~ Henry Rollins
Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's go see what it is. It's a black box. You open it... ok... Look, it's sorrow, misery and pain. It's loneliness and longing. Boy, he'll be sorry he lost these.
~ Henry Rollins
I'm not close to people, I am close to myself. I spend a lot of time inside.
~ Henry Rollins
Just understand that the end began long ago We got here just in time Look All the squares in the sidewalks were already there All these strangers have more money than you do All the good riffs have been taken And everyone is so scared Murder is commonplace I don't even flinch at the gunshots outside my window I feel lonely without them
~ Henry Rollins
Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness. When I see you, the room swallows me. I find myself at the bottom of the pool.
~ Henry Rollins
A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.
~ Henry Rollins
Florida Highway, 1986. Lonely slum. I passed through on low wheels. It was hot outside. Shacks, gas stations that didn't work, dead corn in fields, children on the road, retarded and dulled by the heat. Two girls waved as I passed.
~ Henry Rollins
I wear my sunglasses. Keeps you on one side and me on the other.
~ Henry Rollins
When I am near people, I can't hear the wind. Nights are wasted when spent around others
~ Henry Rollins
There's a great feeling when you're totally resolved. When you make the jump from being lonely to being only. When you're so totally alone and absolute.
~ Henry Rollins
She left an empty house in my heart. The lights don't work anymore, the heater's broken.
~ Henry Rollins
They left you like you knew they would. They went away and you fell like a stone. All the way to the bottom of your room. I see you, yes I see you. Sitting in your chair, hating every minute of it. Falling like a stone without even moving. It hurt you to know that you were right about all the shit you wanted to be wrong about. They always leave you. You put yourself in the right place to get left.
~ Henry Rollins
Being non-reliant on people for contentment is a strength. Even when I feel like I want to be around people, I starve it out and make it die. I think it's the right thing to do.
~ Henry Rollins