Quotes About Isolation

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

One of my favorite things about the D-League was going on the road and losing and not having to talk to anyone after the game.

I would love to be in quarantine with someone like Quinny de Kock. He is one of my favourite people in the world.

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.

I love Robyn. 'Dancing on My Own' is one of my favourite songs.

I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

It feels bad to feel like you're not wanted.

I didn't take writing seriously at first - I didn't think I could do it. When I did, I fell in love with it. But writing is very lonely.

I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.

I had my children, fell in love with mothering, yet couldn't find what I was looking for in terms of support or community. It felt isolating. I couldn't find 'my people.'

I never really felt I belonged; there was always a sense of apartness. At school, I was the cricketer.

I'm not involved with the female world.

I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others.

Some people build fences to keep people out; some people build fences to keep people in.

I live on an island, and my community is served by a ferry that goes three times a day.

If you're going to have a cabin fever, have a big cabin, you know.

Being in a Covid bubble, you are going to need your family with you. It helps you stay sane. Four or five days in, you start to get a little bit of cabin fever. You need your family to take some of that pressure off you.

The Lighthouse' isn't scary. A few people have said it is, but I don't think it is.

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

There are few people I can talk to about the worst parts of what happened during Gamergate.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.