Quotes About Isolation

The bullies don't realize the effects they're having on the kids who are being bullied. They aren't in that situation themselves and are just looking for an audience.

Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.

Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

Reading has made me more open, has improved my understanding, and has made me a better artiste, but it also makes me live in my own bubble. My mom keeps asking me, 'What do you read in that room the whole day?' Once I am into a book, I will finish it.

I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.

I was like a hermit; I didn't really have a lot of homies I would kick it with. I was in high school, I was failing all my classes, and I wanted to make music.

I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof.

I was a sad kid.

I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.

I never fit in as a kid. I always felt that there was something different about me.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

I kind of crave loneliness.

It must be horrible having people scared to talk to you. But I think it's kinda cool that I don't really know anyone in that way.

The physical environment of L.A. is really beautiful. It's actually kinda fun, too, if you're working. It's just not really fun if you're not working and you don't know anybody.

I've fought on 'The Ultimate Fighter' in front of 30-40 people, and I kinda like that. There's no distractions.

I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself.

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.

Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

In general, cooks like to be in the kitchen and they don't really interact with others.

I got used to certain things that normal kids don't get used to, like, when my mother went into the kitchen for things other than just cooking. I could hear the bottle open up and I could hear the chugs. Then the next morning, none of it was discussed. You grow up feeling crazy.

I got a house... in Effingham, so they lock me up in my hermitic seal, and if they knock, I don't answer the door. I am immersed in my world.

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.