Quotes About Isolation

You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing.

In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it, an alienation that we all experience.

The life of an athlete does have to be lonely and you have to be focused on your craft and what you do. Loneliness is just a sacrifice you make as an Olympic-level athlete.

There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.

The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

Those people in 'Friends' could not go out without being hounded, shouted at or followed. Who wants that? I don't want that.

We want to conquer the world and have 1,000 likes, 1 million likes, but at the same time, we are depressed. We are lonely, but we have 10,000 followers. We are all bipolar.

Social media was a little hard for me to handle at first, when I was nine. I have a lot of followers, but that came with a lot of people I didn't know bullying me.

I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.

Pick any scientific field, and you'll find that those snubbed by their communities, left feeling alone and despised, were often those on the forefront.

I couldn't make it work, in the end, in Tulsa or Dallas - in the middle of this foreign country without my support system.

People don't know what it's like being the foreigner until they are one.

But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.

You are forever alone.

My part of the world - it's like time forgot it almost.

People forgot about us, which was what we wanted. We could be left alone without any pressure to make music.

What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.

I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes.

There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten.

Being a person that plays all three formats, I've probably done the most bubble days out of anyone.

I got so lonely in 2012 and I wasn't playing drums. I thought I would just form my own band and play drums again. I think it was 2013 that we started looking for two other people and formed Day of Errors.

All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails - I've been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I'm such a Luddite.

I could live in a community like 'Fortitude.'

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.