Quotes About Isolation

My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.

From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.

Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

There's something scary, knowing that in Florida, someone can pick you up in a car and drive you to 50 states. Back home, it's like, 'Girl, you're 15 minutes away.'

Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.

Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.

When you're gone I can go running though the house screaming and no one will ever hear me.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

You better hope you're not alone.

On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

I havent had the whole famous thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot.

To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.

If you are in a remote desert island, let your best hope be your own efforts to build a ship instead of waiting for a ship to appear among the fogs!

. . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it . . .

You are not alone if you are lonely, When you feel afraid, you're not the only.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

He who understands humanity seeks solitude

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

I can't relate to 99% of humanity.