Quotes About Isolation

Life would split apart without letters.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.

Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.

Far from the world I walk, and from all care.

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.

People see me laughing and telling jokes, but they had no idea after the show was over, I had no joy in my life, in my heart.

And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

I was trying to put myself in the situation of someone that was going through major loss. Losing someone to death or sickness, and having to go through life on your own afterwords.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

This life gets lonely when everybody wants something.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.