Isolation Anxiety Quotes

Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot.

I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.

and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.

I was a loner; I spent the first half of high school alone.

I have no friends.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

It's lonely being stuck in a hotel in London for two nights. Even a couple of nights away from the children is awful.

Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, but to avoid the closed door at bedtime, the empty room, the screaming vacuum of an isolated mind.

It's no fun being lonely.

She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.

I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone.

I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.

Being isolated and on-location can be helpful in terms of being completely dedicated to the work, but somebody like me can also be dangerous in terms of this intense sort of void that you kind of potentially fall into.

If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.

If you're constantly stimulated by being called away to the buzzing and the excitement of what's on your phone, solitude seems kind of scary.

What I do remember about first grade and that year was that it was very lonely. I didn't have any friends, and I wasn't allowed to go to the cafeteria or play on the playground. What bothered me most was the loneliness in school every day.