Quotes About Isolation

panic disorder with agoraphobia (DSM-V code 300.22): the condition, as Hippocrates described it, "usually attacks abroad, if a person is travelling a lonely road somewhere, and fear seizes him.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

So whether he calls it spirit music or not, I don't care. He took it out of wind off mid-Atlantic.

The essence of a degree of freedom is that it doesn't depend on anything else.

I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.

To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.

The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

In a sense, being a full-time writer is less fun because there's no office to go to anymore, there's no set routine, there's no schedule. It can be quite isolating.

Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

I don't spend a lot of time with anybody.

I don't ever have time for friends or anything like that.

I think the Internet is the single greatest revolution to come around in a long time. It's so convenient, it's frightening. I can definitely see why some people don't leave their house anymore.

I'm with people all the time so I often go away on my own.

I was clinically depressed. I was paranoid. I was agoraphobic. I would have days at a time of not being able to even bathe or brush my teeth.

Miles from nowhere. Guess I'll take my time.

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.

So I've been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I'm glad I'm getting pushed out there farther.