Quotes About Isolation

When you're living a lie, the scariest thing is to be alone with your thoughts.

That's the scariest thing is when people feel like they're alone.

But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

And as I have always said, the only thing more scary than knowing we are not alone in the universe is knowing we are alone in the universe.

Knowing you're gay, as a kid in the '80s, is a very scary thing.

Doing a scene by yourself is scarier - you know you don't have other people to fall back on.

Schizophrenia runs in the family.

Home schooling, to me, would be lonely.

I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.

I thought I was the only black Scottish person in the world.

As a child, I would go days without speaking, and then suddenly I would scream until everyone was looking at me.

I'm the Emily Dickinson of screenplays.

The deep sea is a scary world.

Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

I think, visually, 'Moon' probably owes more to the first half of 'Alien' and 'Outland' than it does to '2001.' The character of Gerty is obviously a straight rip-and-riff on HAL.

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

Sometimes I see myself as a locked box - very detached from myself and others. But I feel lucky, because I am the owner of my time, and you cannot buy time.

My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and are competing with U.S., German or Asian banks, they should look at all these factors.

There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.

If you ever really want to get away from it all and see something that you have never seen, and have an excellent chance of seeing something no one has ever seen, get in a sub. You climb in, seal the hatch, turn on a little oxygen, turn on the scrubber, which removes the CO2 in the air you breathe, and they chuck you overboard. Down you go.