Quotes About Isolation

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.

I don't have alot of people to talk to. Not alot of people are worth my time.

What's interesting about my project recently is that I'm going out into broader global spaces but then isolating at the same time - sort of pushing out but then pulling in.

It becomes very difficult for us to adjust to a world without social media because we spend so much time involved with it.

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.

Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.

Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.

I know nothing. I know no one. I'm lonely. Every time I see you, you've put up some new wall, and you never let me in.

I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.

I'm sorry but I've been on my own a long time. I don't know what to talk when I bump into other people.

I went from the glamour of working with Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano to living on an isolated hilltop, with my husband gone most of the time.

Everyone lives under their rocks in L.A., so it takes a long time to find your lane.

I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.

Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

I never go out, ever. And I think that's why I've been craving human connection so badly, and in a way, I'm excited to go on tour to be around people all the time.

I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all.

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

I have never thought of Angelina Jolie except the last time I saw one of her movies. I think that was years ago. It is so far away from the place I'm in right now to think of think of any celebrity.

Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.