Quotes About Isolation

Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Being locked inside the house plays on a psyche of any child and I believe the most important thing is the mental health of any kid.

When I was in my mid-20s, running a successful company and clinically depressed, I was afraid to talk to anyone other than my psychiatrist about it. I was ashamed that I was even seeing a psychiatrist.

I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.

I've been doing expeditions for a living for more than 20 years and know all about what you have to go through psychologically to separate yourself from the modern world.

I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!

Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who are not really there.

I can be among the general public and next to me is a big picture of my face, but no one notices apart from my friends.

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

I lost interest in being in the public eye.

Ideally, I would like to not be in the public eye.

I never wanted this... to be in the public eye.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

My life is pretty small. Even as a successful scientist, I'm not a public figure. I like people - I just don't know that many!

When you are a public figure, relationships are a bit complicated.

Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!

If I'd been born into a hearing family and went to a public school, I would have probably felt much more isolated, and being deaf would have become my identity.

My first book, 'Nadirs,' was very important for me. I'll leave its literary worth for others to judge. But its publication in Berlin in 1984 gave me protection. As did the awards it won. The Romanian secret police could no longer treat me and my friends as though we were completely cut off from the rest of the world. And we no longer felt cut off.

Frankly, I don't like publicity.

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

I was protected from a lot of publicity and politics of life.

When I lived in China, my works were already being banned, and I couldn't publish. In those days, when I was in China, I was writing for myself, so that's the process of writing for myself that was the most important thing.