Quotes About Isolation

I couldn't identify with anyone. At school, I was considered very strange. I didn't understand the relationships between people.

I usually live in my own ignorant, pop-culture bubble, so I don't really know what people are doing.

I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.

There is very little magic in the world of the chronically ill.

When I was 15, I had this illness and was basically housebound for two years.

I think technology gives the illusion that you are connecting with people, social media particularly.

I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.

Imagine growing up never feeling loved by your family - the most basic of human needs.

The homeless person or the schizophrenic person talking to themselves are disassociated from their immediate environment. They're off in a fantasy, and it's very similar to what happens on a cell phone.

When you walk into a room, and you're the only one of something - the only woman or the only African American - that immediate feeling of loneliness happens.

I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!

Nobody is immune to feeling depressed.

One of my impulses in acting has always to make people feel less alone.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

RD Burman was one of the greatest and yet in the end, even his closest friends left him and he was all alone. So I do feel every music man should not be just only in music but should have an alternate career.

I'm incapable of feeling any joy.

Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.

It's better to be incognito because otherwise everyone is talking to you because they know you - and you can't concentrate on the training because everyone is talking to you.

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

I increasingly wonder whether most humans are in a constant state of unconsciously fearing each other. Perhaps they fear how intimately different other people might be to them, and the problem is that there is no real way of finding out just how huge that difference might be.

I've become increasingly agoraphobic.

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

When I'm working on a short story, I could duck into a bathroom at a crowded party and write a scene, which is to say I can work in a very incremental way.

Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.