Quotes About Isolation

Writing is a solitary occupation.

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB

Life without friends is death without witness.

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

for some people life outside the spotlight is death.

In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

I've been an outsider all my life - I don't care.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.

I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless.

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk