Quotes about Isolation

deaths of despair escalating in terrifying ways as people struggled with the dislocation and isolation that the pandemic had caused.

I didn't feel comfortable with this new world. My northern isolation had protected me from all this.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.

Sin's self-centeredness cuts us off from God and others

Yet something keeps dragging us back to other people. We know we are less than human when we are all alone.

We live with this tension between self-protective isolation and the dream for meaningful relationships.

My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.

As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.

Other people are quite dreadful.  The only possible society is oneself.