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Quotes About Isolation

Back in those days it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing back flips and taking naps whenever I want.
~ Jeff Kinney
I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
~ Langston Hughes
I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?
~ Ray Bradbury
Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.
~ Suzanne Collins
She can't just be a face, a body; there has to be more than that, some kind of connection. And I can't connect, don't want to connect, with anyone.
~ Tabitha Suzuma
Listen," she said. "I may not be what you want right now, but I'm all you've got.
~ Jodi Picoult
Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
~ Abraham Cowley
I wouldn't want to be around anyone that would want me around.
~ Alexandra Pelosi
I realize that I want something more. Success is great, but then you also wake up in your hotel room at four in the morning and you're like, wouldn't it be nice to have someone here with me.
~ Alicia Keys
I can't give parties. It's so hard. When I want to call somebody up for dinner they think I'm using them or something. I just can't stand it.
~ Andy Warhol
You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are alone. When Marchent died, she was alone.
~ Anne Rice
Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels like, no-man's-land, and it is not a nice place to be.
~ Anton Oliver
I've closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn't want to hurt again, I didn't want to try, so I turned myself to ice and stone, said I don't need anyone, and nobody else would ever make me cry.
~ Beth Nielsen Chapman
I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.
~ Bill Bryson
I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.
~ Billy Corgan
People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.
~ Bradford Cox
How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?
~ Brit Hume
Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.
~ Bruce Springsteen
You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.
~ Chad Harbach
I started to hate fame, I didn't want to go out, because I didn't want to be recognised for what I was being recognised for.
~ Charlie Simpson
I've made a couple of movies in the jungle, and I don't want to go back to the jungle.
~ Christopher Walken
Nobody wants to phone me, Even collect.
~ Cole Porter
If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.
~ David Quammen