Quotes About Isolation

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

What you need to know about North Korea is that it's not like other countries like Iran or Cuba. In those countries, you have some kind of understanding that they are abnormal, they are isolated and the people are not safe. But North Korea has been so completely purged from the rest of the world, it's literally a Hermit Kingdom.

It was funny being at high school and also grocery shopping and having a job. Other kids were going home to their parents, who were doing their laundry, and I was like, 'Wait, what?' I was super isolated. I was 16, alone in New York, and modelling.

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

I was nervous to even talk to other kids in my class. I would hide in my room when my parents had people over.

I would watch 'Sesame Street' and see neighborhoods and kids with other kids to play with, and I just didn't have that. You know, we were on a lake. We just didn't have that stuff.

I think we ought to take Al Gore, put him on an iceberg, and put him way out there.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Coming out of college, back to New York, where I didn't really know that many people, I thought our world was very atomized.

Our world is moving forward on climate change. If Australia goes backwards, we will be going alone.

Those last days on the road were the worst. Nobody was talking to me or would hang out after shows or do anything. I was made an outcast of the band I'd helped start.

You are only part of the film industry if you are doing well, let me tell you. You will be invited to parties and flowers will reach you on your birthday. When you are not doing well, you are really an outcast.

I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

School was horrific for me, constantly an outcast for being a geek.

I understand the feelings of being the outcast and the loner.

I was always an outcast, even in my family.

The way I felt growing up, which was like an outcast - I was weird, I was a nerd, I read fantasy books - I think a lot of fantasy book readers and a lot of readers and writers in general have that experience of isolation.

I'm the outcast of the hip-hop game.

I think everybody can sort of relate to feeling like the outcast and feeling a bit lost and just craving somebody's attention.

I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don't think I'm angry, though... Maybe my wife would disagree.

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.