Quotes About Isolation

The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

I've noticed in my life that as you work on more things with more people, you spend less time hanging out with other people who are artists, creative people who give you a sense of family.

I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.

At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.

writing, like living, is lonely work.

I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.

I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.

I don't surround myself with anybody, really. I have friends, but I'm kind of an isolationist now. I kind of work on my own.

There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home - there's a necessary degree of secrecy.

I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and curate a space.

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.

Most days I only go out to the post office or to get some food. Otherwise I work on my art or music. I check out the news, and generally spend a lot of time on Tumblr or Facebook or whatever.

I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.

Men, when they're out of work, tend to become abusive.

I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you'd have as much chance communicating with people.

I believe our Presidents work hard and it's the loneliest job in the world.

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.

I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.