Quotes About Isolation

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

Women are interesting, but that isn't the problem, it is that I like being alone, and I'm also touring so much that it's hard to get a relationship to work.

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.

A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.

Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.

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.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

For the millions of us who live glued to computer keyboards at work and TV monitors at home, food may be more than entertainment. It may be the only sensual experience left.

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. I don't want to be too dramatic, but it's hard. It's necessary to start most work alone.