Quotes About Isolation

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

Eleanor Oliphant isn't me or anyone I know. Of course I've felt loneliness - everybody does - but Eleanor and her experiences are fictional.

It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.

I am one of the very few fighters who doesn't read any type of media.

From the age of three, my life has been documented by social workers. There's a file somewhere in Walsall Social Services saying: 'He was a bit difficult today; he was trying to find out about his parents.' Or: 'He locked himself in his room and is collecting beer mats.'

Film acting, if you don't play the lead, you come, and you do your scenes in a few days, and you act with a couple of colleagues. All the rest of the actors you never see, and you don't even meet many of them. And you don't know what will happen with what you've done. Maybe it will be in the film, maybe it will not.

I think it's really important that you don't get caught up in the way the filmmaking community isolates you and the way your life ends up being.

I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don't go out. I'm just locked away, writing. It's a time of meditation, of going into the story.

I'm a firm believer when I'm doing my job to not want anybody around.

I never really got taught to be a striker in the first place and then I never got taught how to be a lone striker.

I went to England for five months when I was in high school, by myself, so I did experience a bit of being the fish out of water.

I spent 39 days in the Amazon, and I could not even find a fish to catch.

I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.

Presidential campaign and White House are two aggressively separate things. They still think I'm the weird kid in the corner, so I don't have much power. But I'll definitely do something to help.

Whites know never tell blacks what you really think and what you really feel because you risk being seen as a racist. And the result of that is that to a degree, we as blacks live in a bubble. Nobody tells us the truth. Nobody tells us what they would do if they were in our situation. Nobody really helps us.

Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.

People who have never dealt with depression think it's just being sad or being in a bad mood. That's not what depression is for me; it's falling into a state of grayness and numbness.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

I'm married. Who cares about me?

'Nothing Left to Lose' was an album that I wrote in my bedroom, and you don't know who is listening or who cares.

I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.