Quotes About Isolation

I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don't even know my next-door neighbor's name.

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.

I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

Sharing lets us feel less isolated and puts us on a path of being connected. At the end of the day, that's what we all want.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

I don't even have Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Why would I ever want to be viral when I'm not even on the Internet?

Sometimes...I just want to run away from it all

I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.

Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this.

It is hard to partner with someone when you become so radioactive no one wants to stand next to you.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

I don't even have many friends anymore because I backed away from them. When things went wrong for me I didn't want them to have any part of my trouble.

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home.

I thought it was safer and easier to be one my own. But I don't think I was to be invisible anymore because-because it's lonely, and I don't want to be lonely. I don't want to be alone.

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.

Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.