Quotes About Isolation

My private life is the most precious thing to me.

As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.

My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it's almost inexplicably awful.

I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

Fame separates you from life.

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

I've lived in a bubble my whole life. I never thought someone with those kind of views, who came across to me so ignorant every time he speaks, could ever be elected.

I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

I definitely can relate to being down and closed-off at certain times in my life.

Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.

If you're undercover for two or three years, I think you lose your private life.

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.

Everything about life makes me lonely.

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.

I've got more friends than I've ever had in my life at the age of 39 - although given that I didn't have any friends until the age of 27, it doesn't say much - because I found the internet.

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.