Quotes About Isolation

All the time I hate what I am doing and want the other. In a room full of people I get frantic in their air and their shout and when I'm alone I sniff the smell of their bodies against my clothes.

small talk plunged to its death around him.

The yearning to be heard is a yearning to escape our isolation and bridge the space that separates us.

But sometimes not being responded to leaves us feeling so hurt and angry that it can make us retreat from relationships, even for years.

The ships slowly picked their way through, guided from patch to patch of open water by the shouts from the crow's nest. Tern, cape pigeon and white petrel flew around the ship. Seals on the ice were so slow to take fright that they were easily bludgeoned on the head and brought on board for food. In the stomach of one of them they found 9 lb of granite stones, which puzzled Ross, as they were a thousand miles from the nearest land.

Die Erebus war nicht zufällig nach dem Gott der Unterwelt benannt, und für die Männer an Bord muss es sich angefühlt haben, als wären sie dort angekommen

Why are they blockading Cuba? Because no other country has done more for its people. It's the hatred of the ideas that Cuba represents.

Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share.

brooding on his cramped horizon and reaching for a drink.

I naturally have a me-against-the-world mentality, and I've been fighting it since I was 13. It's felt like it's only gotten me in lonely, angry places.

I was bullied since primary school, for everything.

I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom who just planted me in front of the television. But while growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world.

The whole time I was in Rio, I probably cried every single night.

I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.

I was singled out by other girls for participating in classroom discussions and physically bullied.

Goldust is a singular character. I don't need to be put with anybody.

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

I have a characteristic since my childhood. I don't like living together with my mother, sister, or friends at my home. I have always preferred to be alone and independent and lived according to that.

My father never liked me or my sister, and he never liked our mother either, after an initial infatuation, and in fact, he never liked anyone at all after an hour or two, no, no one except a stooge.

One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world.

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.