Quotes About Isolation

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

It's a very strange experience to be four or five days from the closest point of land, and you see more plastic than life.

A Tamagotchi is a beep encased in a plastic shell. It exists to haunt you with ghostly notifications that signify nothing.

I watched other boys play baseball and other games, but I was too sickly to join in the fun.

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

I went to Madrid to play football but I couldn't because I was never left in peace.

When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.

I used to not really know any other people when I was young that wanted to play music - that's why I learned everything myself. As a result, you kind of naturally become an engineer of sorts, because you've got to learn how to record everything.

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn't sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.

Whether for company or isolation or just to make it a pleasurable experience, I have music in my ears all the time. I tend to listen to the same things, so I don't really pay too much attention to it. But it's there, and it's nice, and I do pay more attention to it than I probably should. I think, 'How can I use this music in something?'

I know plenty people, and I've done it myself, where you lock yourself inside for four days and you a watch a whole series. It's like watching a never-ending movie. It's great not to have to wait for the next season or the next week.

I am plenty lonely in hotel rooms.

Just because Pluto orbits with many other dwarf planets doesn't change what it is, just as whether an object is a mountain or not doesn't depend on whether it's in a group or in isolation.

There are a lot of lonely people on the planet that have a lot of money in their pocket and no place to go on a Friday night.

Most people in their lives do feel like they are outsiders at some point.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.

I was home-schooled my entire life and never been in a classroom.