Quotes About Isolation

Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

Much of life for many people, even in the heart of the First World, still consists of waiting in a bus shelter with your shopping for a bus that never comes.

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.

The frozen ocean... of Boston life.

I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon take his own life).

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.

Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.

My brother never had me to dinner in his life.

We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.

See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.