Quotes About Isolation

I was a high-school dropout; I was a loner.

I used to consider myself a loner.

I'm a bit of a loner.

I'm kind of a loner type of dude when it comes to basketball.

I was kind of a loner growing up.

Something most people don't know about me is that I'm quite the loner, I would say. I don't really ever leave my house.

I've always been kind of a loner.

I know a lot of very rich, very successful, very lonely women in Los Angeles, and I never wanted to be one of them.

I lived in Los Angeles for a long time, and in a lot of ways, I felt like I lived in my car.

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

I moved all the time as part of a military family, and I just really did not have very many friends. I remember having these feelings of walking into a room and feeling that nobody likes me, or thinking, 'I'm going to have to sit alone at lunch again.'

Lunchtime is hard when you don't have a lot of friends.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

It was a challenge with 'In My Room,' because I was the only person in that room making the record, to maintain perspective.

I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car.

Yeah, he'd been lonely. Knew bloody well what it felt like to have no one in the world who belonged to you, or you to them. But surely that was one reason why they had reached out to each other—

Please go away," she whispered. "Leave me in peace." He scowled. "Cecily…" "Please, Tate," she pleaded gently. "Just go home and forget that you know where I am. I've broken all my ties in Washington, I've put it all behind me. It's just me and the baby now." "You and the baby and your mythical dead husband," he shot back. "What do I have to do to get through to you?

Of course I loved book more than people.

Howl backed into the door to shut it and leaned there in a tragic attitude. Look at you all! he said. Ruin stares me in the face. I slave all day for you. And not one of you, even Calcifer, can spare time to say hello! Calcifer said, I never do say hello. Is something wrong? asked Sophie. That's better, Howl said. Some of you are pretending to notice me at last. Yes, something is wrong.

You can't blame that genie for hating everyone," she said. "Think how you felt shut in that dungeon.

Ann left him there, kneeling among the violets looking out into the fog as if that glimpse of the castle had somehow broken his heart.

So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.