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Quotes About Isolation

Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.
~ Kim Alexis
Modeling is a lonely business.
~ Kim Alexis
Here in my car, I feel safest of all, I can lock all the doors.
~ Gary Numan
I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.
~ Jeff Tweedy
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
~ Marshall McLuhan
It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.
~ Tom Felton
My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.
~ Marshall McLuhan
When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.
~ Danny Bonaduce
I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.
~ Jimmy Smits
We all know about the car breaking down on a deserted road scenario. That's cliché. I'm thinking more of Cider with Rosie, as in, the dark side.
~ Quentin S. Crisp
I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed.
~ Jimmy Fallon
It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?' 'Of course not. Nobody can hear radio waves,' he said unconvincingly.
~ Neil Gaiman
The car emitted on last gasp and rolled to a stop, in the middle of the Altlantic Ocean. "We're here," Leven tried to joke.
~ Obert Skye
In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car.
~ Rene Balcer
There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.
~ Robert Penn Warren
And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.
~ Steve Burns
Not to succeed in one thing is to fail in all.' Far more frightening than any poltergeist is the spectre of loneliness in old age.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Sink, he told his hopes, with a kind of satisfaction, sink like a corpse dropped into the river. I am rejected, not for being unwelcome, not even for being ridiculous, but for being nothing.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Ze wist maar al te goed, terwijl ze daar in het doffe namiddaglicht zat met de potsierlijke verzameling kommen en schalen voor haar uitgestald, dat eenzaamheid tot eenzaamheid sprak en dat hij een rechtstreeks appél op haar gevoelens deed.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
When in a foreign country, he thought, you are behind a fence, or in a cell - everything is going on around you but you are not quite part of it. You open your mouth, and you sound like a child; you know that you are someone else, but you cannot explain it.
~ Penelope Lively
And I am forty-nine and getting old and soon it will be too late for all the things I know nothing of but which torment me in the middle of the night and here now in this place which is supposed to be a comfort and a solace. I am lonely and hungry and I have never breathed a word of this to anyone. Nobody knows or cares. I don't want anyone to know or care.
~ Penelope Lively
I've been like someone with a bad cold, all kind of shut up inside myself, not being able to hear other people. Just shouting out at them sometimes.
~ Penelope Lively
Não há amor resistente à solidão.
~ Unknown