Quotes About Isolation

The thing about human beings they're not emotional enough, but they are sure enough with a heart of coldness. -MillYentei

Our desire to achieve does not happen in isolation. We seek an audience. When the audience refuses to cheer for us, we work hard until they admire us. We validate ourselves, like Satyavati, through the Other. The Other is the parent whose attention we crave.

Because no one wants to see you,' sneered Kama. 'And no one can see you,' retorted Yama.

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

She wanted to leave the house and dance the world away until she fell down dead. For her, every passing minute meant more lost time. Inside the house, she was condemned to live a cloistered life, whereas outside those confining walls, the entire world was enjoying itself. It was like an eternal party...

There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news, all of Digit's life, since my first meeting with him as a playful little ball of black fluff ten years earlier, passed through my mind. From that moment on, I came to live within an insulated part of myself.

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

The loneliness of the arab is a terrible thing; it is all consuming. It is already present like a little shadow under the heart when he lays his head on his mother's lap; it threatens to swallow him whole when he leaves his own country, even though he marries and travels and talks to friends twenty-four hours a day. That is the way Sirine suspects that Arabs feel everything - larger than life, feelings walking in the sky.

I'm in my junior year but I can't take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell between classes. High school is sucking the life out of me.

cold, like swallowed tears.

Walls work both ways. They keep people out...but they keep people in, too.

I have only this cave to call my own.

But right then, one room away, there were people in love, and I'd never felt so alone in my life.

Most people don't understand performers are really sheltered and protected so much sometimes that they don't get a chance to live their lives.

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

The box was beginning to feel like another person in my house, a person with too much power for the space she took up.

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you are still alone.

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.