Quotes About Isolation

isolated instances of beauty and in no urgent need of beholders.

You can ask yourself, 'Why would so many people experience this kind of miserable place and not vacate?' Because it is a place full of people with nowhere else to go." •

It would have been the middle of nowhere if it had been closer to other places.

It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming. It's easier to raise $1,000,000 than it is $100,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

Without her, he was blind, deaf, and dumb.

I also have no problem if you want to find a cave and have someone roll a boulder in front of it.

I was always the popular kid that everyone hated. There was no reason for anyone to hate me. I never really did anything wrong. They just didn't like me, so I had to fight back all the time.

There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

You get into depression when you are sitting at home and have no work, especially after being at the top of your game.

No-one but me gets into my head.

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says 'no.'

Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.

I'm going to keep it real gully with you; the first two months, I wanted to give him back. I expected someone to come and save me because after you have the baby, nobody cares about you anymore. Nobody cares if you sleep, nobody cares if you eat. It's just you and this all-consuming thingy!

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.

I don't like being in London too long, because everybody's just looking straight forward, at nobody else. That freaks me out a little bit.

I stay in my little bubble - that is what I try and do. There is always noise out there and distractions, but you just have to block all that noise out.

Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

That's the way a musician is. You're isolated, in a weird way, because music is haunting you as much as it's loving you. It's non-stop.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

It used to be when you eat, you eat with people. But instant noodles are so instant that people eat by themselves. And it's a very convenient way of eating but also a very lonely way of eating.

Becoming a good player so quickly made me miss a lot of the normal life of a normal teenager.

For about a year, when we lived at Middlewick, I couldn't really go anywhere. But the children came and went as normal - they just got on with it - and so did great friends. I would pass the time by reading a lot - more than I'd ever have been able to in a normal life.