Quotes About Isolation

Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.

When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.

People imagine that everything is easy when you're a princess, but we're still human beings. Some of my friends don't want to go out with me anymore - to go to a restaurant, I have to use a different door.

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have no Internet, no communications, and you're cut off from the whole world. Everything is given to you. You have shelter; you have food, a shower, water. You don't need to spend a dime. You don't have to worry about bills.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

I got mail from a prison once.

Prison killed me. It destroyed me.

No, I didn't hear about 'Live Aid.' I was in prison, and we were not allowed newspapers in prison.

I lost everything when they put us in prison. I was an enemy alien, a man without a country.

My father, David Gilbert, is in prison in New York. He is lucky that he has a single cell, not shared with another person. His cell is about eight feet by eight feet.

I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control.

Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!

When I arrived in prison, they locked the prison down that day because the media was all over the place.

My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me.

I'll stay in my house and watch 'Lockup,' the prison show.

When I went to prison, for three years I didn't say a word to another human being until, going into the fourth year, when I realized, 'You know what, I have to find a way to live.'

I know the air of hopelessness and what people in prison go through.

I knew early on that I was going to prison for the rest of my life and that there was nothing that no one was going to be able to do to help me.

People just don't know what civilian prisoners of war are.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us imprisoned: first, they physically isolate us from the outside world and those in it who love us; then they work to divide prisoners from one another by inculcating our distrust in one another.

Privacy is paradise.

I just love my privacy.