Quotes About Isolation

Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can feel like an abyss, void of real people.

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

The movies were so healing for me because I had such an isolated, lonely childhood. Going to the movies and having the lights go down, you disappear. If you have esteem issues, suddenly you're in a void where nobody can see you. You are just by yourself in that darkness, and your loneliness is cured.

When you got on the private plane, you had your own private lounge where you could close the door. So there wasn't a lot of friendly conversation; we were in incubators by ourselves. That just bred a void - avoid each other, and avoid the issues.

We get caught in our little silos and end up working against ourselves. And I think social media culture really encourages that, because you're really just shouting into a void hoping someone picks up on what you're saying.

I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me.

One lesson astronomy tells us is that we're a tiny mote in a hostile void, and help is too far away.

Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.

There's a lot of times when I just want to scream into the void.

For a long time, life was fighting and there was nothing outside of that. At one point, it started to become very empty just because there was a void somewhere in my heart.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross.

I am neither a sociologist nor a psychologist, but you don't have to be one to see that Turkey is in a vortex of problems, isolated from the world.

I can't play video games or games on my phone because I'll go into a deep vortex, and no one will hear from me for weeks.

We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they'd be too tired to play it. So we didn't know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places.

When push comes to shove, people vote alone.

With a vast majority of conservative voters and listeners solidly behind Mr. Trump, conservative critics of the president find themselves isolated and under siege.

Drugs are a very selfish thing.

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

I was just a bit of a loner as a young boy. And very, very sensitive. Ever the emotional young thing.

Often, the people I'm working with on music are separate from the rest of my life.

I know that I'm in grime, but I had to separate myself and do things myself.