Quotes About Isolation

I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.

He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.

My iPhone stays on. All my friends and family know that I hate the phone, so no one calls me on it. I just use it to play Words With Friends and take pictures of cute shoes.

I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.

If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks.

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam's circle.

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it.

There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.

Oh, it's soo hard being famous! I can't date anybody because everybody just wants my hot body and my Twilight millions!

I can never really enjoy being famous.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.

When you come into a movie theatre, there are no windows, you don't hear the sound outside and you're ready for fantasy.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.? Stephen King, The Shining

In the middle of nowhere, a trunk heavy with gold is a burden, not treasure.

Once upon a time, there had been a seventeen-year-old assassin who had never let anyone get closer to her. Then, with the turning of a page, her story changed forever.