Quotes About Isolation

I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.

Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.

I spent so much of my life shut down from the abuse of my childhood. I didn't have friends and I didn't have connections with people.

I lead an introverted and boring life here in California.

Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

Those struggling with life-threatening thoughts do not feel connected to others. They feel all alone- even alone in the midst of a crowd.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

I can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

I don't do anything. My life sucks.

In life's most significant moments we are always alone.

I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.