Mose Allison Quotes

I have no friends and I never leave my house.

I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

There was about two years where I was more or less agoraphobic and didn't deal with anybody, didn't talk to anybody, didn't have any friends at all.

I didn't realise how much I was alienating people. I would constantly refuse to go out when friends would call. At one point, I didn't realise I was at home for a week.

Sometimes I go totally anti-social.

If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.

I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.

If you go into any physics lab, everybody is depressed and feels isolated. We don't get any feedback that anybody cares about what we're doing.

I hardly even leave my own house.

I know a lot of people who transitioned and dropped out of society for two years. They don't talk to anybody. They become hermits. They try to do everything alone.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.

I'm so secluded, and I'm so private.

I was a very isolated teenager.

I was in depression. I was in my room, dark every night, not wanting to talk to nobody, not going out with my friends, not doing anything, not having a great time. It was a lot of dark nights.

I think I am very anti-social.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

I don't socialise. My social life is minus zero.

When people are acutely depressed, many of them seem to want to hide.

I can't even lie: Sometimes, I be antisocial.

I've lived a very isolated life.

I kept a lid on my feelings at school but, when I was 18, dropped out of everything and couldn't even be bothered to get out of bed.