Quotes About Isolation

The town I grew up in, there were no musicians to play with; it was just me. The town I grew up in, there was two shops: like, a paper shop that sells confectionery, sweets and stuff, and, like, a farm supplies and a petrol station. That was literally it.

A lot of the time, when I swim, I close my eyes because it is definitely lonely.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.

I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.

I like swimming or go to the gym, but I am alone a lot, and that can get a little depressing.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

One of my favorite books is 'The Swiss Family Robinson.' The reason is, I'm fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do?

It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.

I usually switch off my phone. I can't bear it; obviously I'm not a very social person like that.

I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.

I can go somewhere and switch off completely. I will let people know in advance that I'm away, but once I'm out of contact, I'm out of contact. That's it.

I love listening to old 'Desert Island Discs' - I just sit there, switch my head off, and just have that moment.

I just feel a bit out of my depth in Sydney.

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

It's difficult when you're on loan, especially when you're not a young player who people may have sympathy for.

I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also a symptom of the modern world.

My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I was being placed in an isolation cell. No one else could possibly be feeling what I was. I hated my depression and all of its symptoms.

Feeling alone while you're going through something actually exacerbates the symptoms of it.

There was definitely a period when I just felt out of sync with earth.

For those that don't know, my sister was born with Down Syndrome, and she was institutionalized in the very early sixties. Me, being just a small boy and being shuffled around between my mother and grandparents, I never knew her.

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.