Quotes About Isolation

I've made some really good friends from movies, but a lot of the time it's a very isolated experience that lives and dies during the production.

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.

I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.

At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.

The 30-year-old male is about as far away from Valentine's Day as you can get in the human experience.

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

Feeling alone and unseen can intensify the experience of being harassed, shamed, or bullied.

Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.

I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.

An existence transfigured by failure.

There is no feeling quite so lonely as failure.

Solitude is the place of purification.

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.