Quotes About Isolation

We're all on our own. Even when you're surrounded by people, or sharing a bed with a loving lover, you're alone.

How horrible it was to be despised. To feel yourself to be despicable.

It's amazing how friends can slip through your fingers, how your social network can vanish like it never existed.

I didn't have enough other people in my life to cover the loss of this many people at once. I didn't have spare aunties or cousins or grandparents. I didn't have backup. I didn't have insurance to cover a loss like this.

I'll never be a normal person ever again. You took that away from me. You made me ABNORMAL and it's lonely being abnormal.

Ever since she'd been living alone, she'd gone to bed with the television on; the comforting banality of the murmuring voices and flickering images warded off the feeling of terror that could sometimes overwhelm her.

Perry was away often. He sometimes felt like an aberration in her life. A visitor. Her real life took place when he wasn't there. What happened never mattered all that much because he was always about to leave, the next day or the next week.

It was something to do with her sense of always feeling separate from everybody else, as if things that worried them couldn't possibly worry her, as if she were immune from the ordinariness of life.

The girl said, 'Sometimes you locked me in my room with only water. I had to ration the water. That was a terrible thing to do to a little girl. I thought I would be there forever. I thought I would die. I think I might have come close to dying. A few times.

Amy once told Joy that she had no idea how lonely it felt to be single. Joy had wanted to tell her that you could still be lonely when you were married, that there had been times when she had woken up day after day crushed with loneliness, and still made breakfast for four children.

When her life fell apart there hadn't been one friend whom Tess could call. Not one friend. That's why she was behaving like this with Connor. She needed a friend.

Desolate' was the most perfectly beautiful word for how she felt. Sometimes

All around her was color: rich, vibrant color. She was the only colorless thing in this whole house.

That would be the worst. To be ignored. To not be seen.

Excuse me?' A beaming female face swims into focus. A woman has touched her on the arm and Grace is disconcerted, as though someone on television waved at her. She feels so remote from the world, from normal people, she thought she was invisible.

the world was adrift on a sea of tears

her brother had not just gone into another room, he was gone, so gone, so silent, not a text not a post not a tweet not a word, and next thing she was struggling for breath and all she could think was, Get out.

If only she could have e-mailed or texted him, that would have solved everything, but mobile phones and the Internet were still in the future.

She literally felt twitchy without her phone.

if you could float when there was no room, no space anywhere, above, below, when you couldn't take a step without feeling the spongy give of rotting stuff beneath your feet. She

Got it, by Jove! We'll build a great big bloody wall and keep the buggers in!" Presumably he hadn't

I'm an orphan now, thought Charlotte. No matter how old you are, when your parents are gone, you are alone - an orphan.

Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.

Sometimes I wanna drop a tear but no emotion from a king.