Quotes About Isolation

There were times in my early 20s where I dealt with some anxiety and depression issues. At that time, it just feels like you're under the water, and you can't get out.

There are different levels of depression - when I got low, I got really, really low.

I lost my parents. I was totally alone and I had to manage everything all alone. It did put me in depression.

I feel for everybody that goes through it because depression is real, and it doesn't take much to put you in that state of mind to where you think everybody's against you, you're up against the world and that's not true.

I developed depression. But I never let people know how down I was feeling. That would have been another burden for my friends to take on. My mind became my biggest enemy.

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

The Roundhouse was a complete shell. It was absolutely empty, lying derelict for years.

Yeruham's small. You walk five minutes, and you're in the desert.

I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

There is such a peace out in the middle of the desert. There's nothing like it.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

I always thought that people who live in the desert are a little crazy. It could be that the desert attracts that kind of person, or that after living there, you become that. It doesn't make much difference. But now I've done my 40 years in the desert.

I used to think that only people who were crazy were attracted to the desert, but once you've lived there, you become that way anyway.

Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.

And there are a lot of people like that, who feel loneliness and despair but cover it up.

You have to be very poor and desperate, or very rich, or lucky, to live in Islington. We don't have the people in the middle, the people who serve the community.

It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

I've always been on the outside looking in. I was never popular in school, despite my success in athletics. I would win track and field competitions, but I wouldn't go to parties. I'd be alone.

Mania is the most destructive of the forces. Everybody around you will tell you you're in trouble, and you can't hear what they are saying.

The biggest thing is separation from family. It's a huge burden to carry and destructive in a lot of ways.

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.