Quotes About Isolation

Because North Korea was so totally cut off, we didn't hear anything of the outside world. We had only one TV channel, which showed only propaganda, and we believed everything.

Behind the keyboard, it doesn't matter that physically my body doesn't work properly.

Part of me still feels like I've never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I find isolation to be my biggest influence.

The main thing that triggered my depression was my isolation that was imposed on me by becoming the wife of the prime minister, and leaving my home, my family. I was young, very young, and very naive and very hopeful and enthusiastic about my wonderful new life, but it was the loneliness and the lack of being able to properly relate to people.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing his work. But when a studio says to a writer, 'Give us some pages,' he just goes off and comes back. It's just pages, and suddenly, there's some writing on them.

We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.

I think you miss out on a lot of stuff when you're so protected and isolated.

Every new writing project, every new artistic project, needs to be protected so it can grow on its own before it begins to creep out into the world.

When we have built up armor against all the bad things we think might happen in the world, we have a false sense of protection and have only built up isolation.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

Je sais combien la pauvreté met les amis en fuite.

Twould please me best to fight these Greeks alone.

De quien es pobre, nadie quiere ser amigo.

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

It's awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself.

Free as air; that's what they say- free as air. Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

What is it about being on a boat that makes everyone behave like a film star? --Julia Flyte

From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.

Sebastian contra mundum.

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.' The avalanche was down, the hillside swept bare behind it; the last echoes died on the white slopes; the new mound glittered and lay still in the silent valley.