Quotes About Isolation

I want to be together with everyone else but stay lonely.

The only way I can cope is to lock myself in the bathroom and cry. Sometimes I sit there for hours and even eat my lunch sitting on the toilet floor. Anything to get peace and quiet.

In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom.

I spent three weeks on a converted shrimp trawler with 17 people, two toilets, and one shower, all the while diving every day with very active sharks.

I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.

Being away from the game took a toll on my heart.

An introvert as a child, I spent most of my younger years being bullied for my name. It took its toll on me, and by Class VI, I couldn't even have a proper conversation with anyone.

I was just a machine, training with my father... I didn't have a childhood; obviously, that took its toll.

But the more isolated people are—the less sense of community and responsibility for one another they feel—the more they turn to money for their comfort and survival.

Silence is so freaking loud

winter in downeast Maine makes summer seem like something that only happens to other, more fortunate people, probably on some other planet.

You've been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

I have this feeling - of being unplugged and too far from the socket and what remains is a red warning bar.

In truth, she disliked books. She felt a peculiar disquiet when opening the pages. She had felt it since childhood. She did not know why. Something in the act itself, the immersion, the seclusion, was disturbing. Reading was an affirmation of being alone, of being separate, trapped. Books were like oubliettes. Her preference was for company, the tactile world, atoms.

I wish I could be built so that stupidity and dullness wouldn't bother me as much, but I just can't help it. It may sound paradoxical, but with time one wishes to be a hermit instead of always being around people. - Doctor Doris Maza

And when I don't feel it, it's pointless. Think about getting up it's pointless. Think about eating it's pointless. Think about dressing it's pointless. Think about speaking it's pointless. Think about dying only it's totally fucking pointless.

I am the beast at the end of the rope.

When depression visits I shall hang myself to the sound of my lover's breathing

I've never in my life had a problem giving another person what they want. But no one's ever been able to do that for me. No one touches me, no one gets near me. But now you've touched me somewhere so fucking deep I can't believe and I can't be that for you. Because I can't find you.

M The heat is going out of me. C The heart is going out of me. B I feel nothing, nothing. I feel nothing.

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass

I sing without hope on the boundary