Quotes About Isolation

Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.

Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.

I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah.

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.

I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread.

Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

Janet Erskine Stuart

This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away.

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.

I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn't listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King.

L.A. can be very superficial, and it's hard to meet cool people here. I try to stay away from the glitzy side of the business and have a normal life as much as possible. I keep to myself.

My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.

Alone.Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone, I felt best being alone, cleaner, , ,

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.