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"I hate most people. And I don't want to, it's an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It's repulsive, because one's life consists of people, not things."
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"Since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light."

"Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand."

"I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody."

"I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this -- I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense."

"You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that."

"Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It's an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don't see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior."

"What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate; I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it shall content me. it is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless, and free from the misery I now feel. Oh! my creator, make me happy; let me feel gratitude towards you of one benefit!"

"One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!"
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"Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up."

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"You made me feel less alone;you made me feel not quite sodeformed, uninformed and hunchbacked."

"There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!"

"Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense."

"I need grit and struggle and Los Angeles is terribly nice, but people, once they get there, cease to be real. Constant and repetitive fulfillment is not good for the human spirit. We all need rain and good old depression. Life can't be all beer and skittles."
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