Quotes About Isolation

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.

I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.

Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.

I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost.

There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o'clock in the morning.

People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.

I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.

Well I grew up in Canada in a really small town. We didn't have running water for a long time and we didn't have TV. Then when we did get TV we only had one channel.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.