Quotes About Isolation

I grew up in a loving family, but I essentially grew up alone. I had no friends for a while.

While loneliness has the potential to kill, connection has even more potential to heal.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

While thousands of Americans die alone, Donald touts stock market gains. As my father lay dying alone, Donald went to the movies. If he can in any way profit from your death, he'll facilitate it, and then he'll ignore the fact that you died.

I faded away for a while out of necessity.

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.

Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.

After I'd been on Friends, people would whisper as I went past. I no longer had proper dialogues with people.

I ended up getting sent off at The Dell against Liverpool for two bookable offences. I think that was the lowest point of my career. I ran straight into the dressing-room and stayed there, alone, until the final whistle.

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

I guess the White House is kind of confining.

Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.

Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay.

A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.

When I was younger and in primary school, I'd do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months.

Do you know what prepares you for the mental hospital? Being a prime minister's wife.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.