Quotes About Isolation

I don't have that many family and friends.

I understand when you have great players on losing teams who are tired of losing, struggling in the playoffs every year. You're the lone star. I've been in that position.

When you're successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire.

I used to have tears in my eyes on the way to practice because I was so focused. For me, track and field was serious business. I didn't have any friends. I was very isolated and very focused.

When you come to a place like Kauai, you don't go for a high tech world.

Living by yourself, technically by yourself, at the age of 16 is not easy to do.

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

In a modern digitalized world, it is possible to paralyze a country without attacking its defense forces: The country can be ruined by simply bringing its SCADA systems to a halt. To impoverish a country, one can erase its banking records. The most sophisticated military technology can be rendered irrelevant. In cyberspace, no country is an island.

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

'Catcher in the Rye.' I feel like any brooding teen loves that book.

It's so easy as a teen to feel like everybody is having this normal experience - except you. You're on the outside.

I didn't have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle.

I was only listening to rock music, burning joss sticks in my bedroom, wanting only to be a disc jockey, and watching six hours of television a night - the worst kind of teenage alienation.

One of the saddest things I've ever done is download 'I'm A Teenage Dirtbag' by Wheatus and play along with it with my headphones on. Oh, God. If you were to walk in and see me do that, you would really worry for me.

Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.

I was an incredibly lonely, very alienated teenager.

When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

It wasn't a leap for me to go from not wanting to be in my body as a teenager, not wanting to be in my house, to thinking, 'What would happen if I had disappeared?' And then going from writing scenes of angry kids to thinking a little more about the parents and what their lives would be like.

Depression is something I've lived with since I was a teenager.

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.