Quotes About Isolation

To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.

Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.

The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.

...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.

What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .

To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.

I recorded this album in a windowless room in Brooklyn by myself. I think Chamber of Reflection sums the album up better than Salad Days to tell you the truth.

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

I do understand sometimes when actors say there's no one to talk to, or you can't react to, there's truth in that, but for me, I've always enjoyed green screen, and blue screen.

I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.

This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.

...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.