Quotes About Isolation

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.

Life seemed entirely composed of weeping faces, old men sneaking up bedroom-stairs, tombstones with spittle trickling down, and black-edged calling-cards. He felt as if the First Cause of the Universe were a small, malignant grub, radiating a deadly blight in withering, centrifugal air-waves!

It seemed, in those days, that the more the angels had to ride on, and talk over distances with, and get together by, the more separate they became. The more they made the world smaller, the greater the distances between them.

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.

Every art communicates because it expresses. It enables us to share vividly and deeply in meanings… For communication is not announcing things… Communication is the process of creating participation, of making common what had been isolated and singular… the conveyance of meaning gives body and definiteness to the experience of the one who utters as well as to that of those who listen.

To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone, All just supply, and all relation; Prince, subject, father, son, are things forgot, For every man alone thinks he hath got To be a phoenix, and that then can be None of that kind, of which he is, but he.

The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

The wretched have no friends.

Night came, but unattended with repose. Alone she came, no sleep their eyes to close. Alone and black she came; no friendly stars arose.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

Loneliness is a strange gift.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict.

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.

Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

All my life I've been hiding.

Miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to.

I'm not invited to any exciting parties and my life hasn't really changed.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.