Quotes About Isolation

I'm notorious for only using my mobile phone for outgoing calls: nobody knows my London number and I certainly don't do anything online.

When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.

If you don't have an outlet, you become a criminal - or misanthropic.

David Cameron wants people to believe that his isolation in Europe is a result of Britain being outnumbered when it matters most.

I'm fascinated with what happens to the creative output when you isolate yourself from the approval and disapproval of the people around you.

At the age of 19, I removed myself from society for almost four months, setting off years of manic episodes, including outrageous overspending. I bought several Mercedes because I thought I could. I had no money, but I rented a jet.

When I was at my most outrageous and destructive, I alienated almost everybody.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I think when things get hard with your family, it's really easy to want to isolate yourself. The world is so harsh, so when stuff happens outside, you want to go to your family, but when stuff happens inside your family, you sort of start to feel like, 'I'm alone. There is no place I can go to where just nothing will happen to me.'

Being cut off from the outside world is scary.

In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

Ice and I just live our own lives. I have to answer to him, and he has to answer to me, and that's it. We don't care about the outside world, and even though it can be harsh out there, we just have to deal with it.

I always felt an outsider.

I feel like I am the outsider on the inside, if that makes sense. But I have coped with it.

A part of me always felt like an outsider and still does.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.

I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.

I guess I've always been something of an outsider.

I've always been an outsider.

I've always been interested in the outsider.