Quotes About Isolation

I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

I'm like a hermit. Once I'm home, I'm home and when I ride in the car, I don't really listen to the radio as much.

I don't want nothing to do with y'all, I just stay home. I do drugs, lay around and take care of my family, that's it.

The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

I'm quite good at going away from home. I don't live with my parents or anything. But it is tough when you're so far away from everyone.

Unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home.

Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.

I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.

It was always hard for me to really make friends, but that's just because I like to stay home.

My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn't belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.

If I am just home and writing, I become very strange.

I'm so happy to be around people. I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can.

And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.

Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

Nobody's going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it.

Here, far from our homes, we will be forgotten by our gods.

Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.