Quotes About Isolation

If all people became ghosts my social life would be so over" - Suze Simon in the Mediator

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

Sometimes when I'm in the studio I feel so much but don't know how to express it. You're just like in a cave - life goes on without you.

I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.

You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your old age, onto the street.

I've never been the popular kid in school. I've been a loner my whole life. That's why I have a very low profile.

If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.

That's why; he's worried about how his life is turning out, and he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all

My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was, "Oh my God! It's over for her now!"

There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.

I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock.

I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.

Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is.

Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.

He is also a victim of some injustice; he usually tries to be alone, in order to show his pain to others.

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.

I want some time without you organic life forms.

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.