Quotes About Isolation

I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.

So Kratos is always angry, and he spent a considerable amount of time after 'God of War' trying to be away from people and trying to figure out how to get control of that. So it is this kind of internal struggle for him at all times.

I have experienced loneliness at many, many points in my life and felt this profound sense of shame about it - all the years when I was a child that I struggled with feeling lonely when I was scared to go to school and petrified of walking into the elementary school cafeteria because I was worried I wouldn't have anyone to sit with.

You see women struggling to keep it all together while a loved one is in jail. But we don't hear about them or their struggles in a way that resonates with others. Their stories are so compelling. It's as if they are in their own little world and no one else sees them.

We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true.

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves.

The oppression is like nothing imaginable - I literally believed that Kim Jong-il could read my mind.

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

I couldn't connect with people so I developed other senses. I had no other option.

As a kid, I felt like I had no voice, felt like I had no options, and that's what drove me to this really dark place.

I always think of the 'Schizophrenia' album as being like the cover of the Scorpions' 'Blackout.' It's got this guy breaking out of the glass, but he's got a straightjacket on. I think it's a bit of 'Blackout' mixed with a little bit of 'A Clockwork Orange.'

If you're in space on the way to Mars, and a conflict develops... you can't turn around and go back, because Earth is already gone on its orbit.

There was a time when an ordinary American could close the door and keep the world at bay. Now the world comes elbowing in every time you go online.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

In the end, being the writer on set is a bit like having organised a big party, but you're not allowed to eat or drink anything. You just have to stand in the corner.

You hear some people saying, 'I'm alive on stage; it's where I feel most complete...' I don't understand that at all; I find that weird and depressing. I don't dislike the audience; it's just when I'm up there, they're in the darkness. There's just a sound of laughing or not. They're not 'people,' they're this big organism.

New Orleans just wasn't anything for me. I didn't fit in. I just couldn't get adjusted.

I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something.

I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.

I've experienced a great deal of, you know, ostracism from the making of films.

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.