Quotes About Isolation

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

Because I was once a reporter, I've always felt a sense of estrangement inside the newsroom. The field is alive and interactive, while the newsroom is quiet and stereotypical.

Business gives you a massive high. Doing a great deal, coming up with an inspirational solution... It's very addictive. But it doesn't last long. In isolation, it's a bit sterile. It doesn't reward the soul.

Me, you could stick me in solitary confinement for 100 years and I'd be fine.

I wanted to be a cool mom. It was hectic. I felt very isolated for a long time, but in the end, it was cool because it helped me and Ninja stick together. If we hadn't, we would have maybe drifted.

I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.

I'm from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there.

I've always felt happy in my own company. It's only when I get around other people that things get sticky.

There's a lot of stigma attached to being in a home. Other parents don't want their kids to play with you because you're naughty or nasty.

When I was suffering with depression, people weren't talking about depression. It had a stigma.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks.

I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

Hunger changes you. As your body begins to claw at you, your stomach churning in anger, every person who shares a photo of the fancy meal they're about to eat is no longer your friend.

Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

Even the other kids who people made fun of made fun of me. That's where I stood on the school food chain.

I've always been alone, done things by myself and stood stronger than the others.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

I didn't tell anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends would stop me. I didn't think much about what would happen afterwards.

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.