Quotes About Isolation

Now, the separation between depression and suicide is more crevasse than chasm.

I am a raft of secrets, she thought, and she imagined herself on timbers from a shipwreck, the water around her endless in all directions.

But if you are a person who needs no one's approval, you are probably crazy and live alone on an island or the top of a mountain somewhere.

She'd learned that morning that a cloister was just a covered walkway in a religious building, but she understood that it was also the root of the word cloistered. And that meant something else. Something more. Separation. Isolation. Purity, maybe. The

She was a woman and she had spent enough time alone on subway platforms or streets late at night to know something was wrong.

Separate lives with separate agendas going separate ways did not knit hearts together.

Margie Flynn was in my head like a bad cold, blurring everything. It was a new kind of loneliness, a hurt I couldn't stop picking at.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer," D. H. Lawrence wrote. "It has never yet melted.

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything.

I was miserable at uni. There were months at a time when I wouldn't leave the house unless it was to buy food. I lost a lot of friendships. I later lost jobs because of my mental health.

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

I was miserable as a kid.

When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.

I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

I'm not like a social butterfly or anything, but I just miss seeing even my friends.

I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot.

I was really, really shy. My dad used to drive me for an hour and a half to go training. I used to finish school, jump in the car, come back, and go to bed. I missed out on socialising with my friends when I was a shy child anyway.

I've missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

Of course there are moments for everyone, and certainly for me, where you do feel misunderstood. You feel like you can't really connect. You do feel like you're alone in something.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

I have always been misunderstood.