Quotes About Isolation

I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.

This morning I shot six holes in my freezer. I think I've got cabin fever.

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug.

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

Brian Howe had no mother, so he won't be missed.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

Mother my friends are no longer my friends And the games we once played have no meaning I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why So they've left me to my own daydreaming.

When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie - except her man.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

We are only alone when we abandon ourselves.

There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me.