Quotes About Isolation

I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates.

My siblings were pretty far apart in age, so I sort of grew up as an only child.

I have a lot of cousins, but no siblings.

I do think of myself as a bit of a loner, a bit of an independent. I'm one of those people who, when they're sick, like to curl up and remove myself. I don't like a lot of people around. There is nothing you can do to help.

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

I was trying to work, but I noticed that people, if they had any inkling of the idea that I was sick or had MS... people shunned me. No work after that.

I'm just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.

All these dismal things that are going on in the world - the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution - it's so frightful, over the whole world.

I wouldn't say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don't think there's anyone on my side.

You can have everything and yet if you have no one by your side, you would be the loneliest person ever.

I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.

Most prisons in this country are in the middle of nowhere, which makes it much easier for us all to throw those people away. Out of sight, out of mind.

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.

I had to live with the models in one big house for two months, 24 hours a day. Only a few of them actually learned how to sign... I couldn't really communicate with anybody, and I felt isolated.

A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

I grew up in very rural Ireland. The Internet was kind of a connection to the greater world. It had a lot of significance.

There are no signposts in the sea.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become.

'The Silence of the Lambs' is my favourite book, favourite film.