Quotes About Isolation

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.

I don't make good connections with people and I don't know if that's an emotional block on my part. I don't know.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible. The last girlfriend I had, when we broke up, I remember being in a room for days on days on days with my music cranked up, playing songs like Kanye's '808's & Heartbreak.' That playlist just was long!

I've always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I'm in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I'm alone in my head.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

If you live in a big city, and you're surrounded by people, you're way more in touch with humanity than you would be if you lived in a very remote area and just spent all day long on the computer.

I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people.

I had some social anxiety when I was younger because I wasn't surrounded by many people in my life.

The thing is, I wasn't surrounded by lots of people who were helping me build a career.

I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.

My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.

I was so fortunate; in the years that I was in 'Thrones,' we were able to shoot in Iceland. I think some of my favourite memories would have to be isolated out there, surrounded by nothing but snow and ice.

You can be surrounded by many people but still feel quite lonely if you don't have strong connections and if you feel you can't be yourself with them. Conversely, you can just be around a few people, but feel deeply connected to them.

I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.

Old women especially are invisible. I have been to parties where no one knows who I am, so I am ignored until I introduce myself to someone picked at random. Immediately, word gets round, and I am surrounded by people who tell me they are my biggest fans.

We spend 364 days a year surrounded by people who kind of are our family, but we never really get to meet them or break through with them.

I write in my pajamas on my sofa surrounded by my cats. It's a bit isolating.

Finding out about Bjork was like finding out about some rare and magical thing that I had never encountered living where I was living at the time, being surrounded by the people I was surrounded by.

Nothing sounds worse than having to be surrounded by people you don't like in a sequined dress.

My house is surrounded on three sides by cornfields.

We lock ourselves away and we concentrate on what we're doing and try not to think about the madness that's surrounding it, and all the hype.

For me, when I grew up, I never really had an outlet when it came to my social surroundings. Even if I had a form of popularity, I felt like I was very limited.

Being away from my family for six months a year - even if it was in the beautiful surroundings of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean - was just too hard.