Quotes About Isolation

His stomach growled again. He couldn't remember ever being this hungry. A little brown spider scurried between his shoes. He snatched it up, shoved it in his mouth, chewed, swallowed. Wait. That's not right. Allen strongly suspected he needed to be rescued.

In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables)

To love anyone means to admit extinction. I tell myself this, so I never fall in love, so that the fire lights just me.

If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah…fair enough…gotta go home now.

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack.

Being the "best you can be" is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those balls and you are alone and it's your birthday.'

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

In my business you cant trust anyone because you dont know whos your friend. Becoming successful means you become a prisoner

In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.