Quotes About Isolation

Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.

I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that everybody saw was no longer me.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.

Nobody stood by Jesus. Maybe nobody will stand by you. It's a lonely life, but it's a glorious life.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

Life is simply better when we are with others, and worse when we are isolated. God designed us to be connected, and life breaks down when we are not.

I am a total loser, in every aspect of my life. I rarely go out.

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

Even in this world where you're getting everything you need and having this nice life, there's still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.

Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?

Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?