Quotes About Isolation

I loved the High Line when it was just mine, when I was the only person up there, and I had a private park in New York City. I had to make an appointment to see it... I'd walk around. I was all alone.

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.

We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.

It is part of being a goalkeeper: there is nobody behind to save you.

It's very hard to participate in society when you can't talk to people on the medium that they talk to other people on.

I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

I've always been resistant to parties and schmoozing.

I did not love going out to parties or even get-togethers, really - I went to the movies, which, if you think about it, is an isolating experience anyway - and this was because I had anxiety about interacting with people.

I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses.

I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to.

I don't like to go to parties.

I don't go to a lot of parties or do a lot of going out within, like, the Hollywood circle or celebrity-type circles and things like that.

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards speaking engagements and literary festivals and dinner parties. That has no interest for me these days. You get to a point where you don't care anymore. At that point, you can start to write.

So many Hollywood actresses become successful and then just keep on going - they miss out on having a partner and a baby and end up lonely.

I have a song on my album called 'Distance' which I wrote in the pandemic all about not being to see my partner and having a sense of physical - and social - distance.

Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won't last too long and won't affect other parts of life.

Fame is like being at a party and getting invited into the cool room even the VIPs can't get into, then the even cooler, more exclusive room after that. Eventually, you end up in a cubicle on your own, asking, 'Am I having fun?'

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.

I lived at home and found myself really, really lonely because all my friends were enjoying college and partying, and I didn't have that.

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.

It's easy to draw up isolation basketball - it's not easy to draw up great motion offense with passing and cutting.

Don't feel bad about it," the sergeant said. "You never know when it's the real thing." Afterward he reflected on how he had been alone on the street, and how they came at once, unquestioningly, thinking that he needed them, and the memory of that moment remained with him always, like the lost innocence of a child.

Hoe bang ik ook was, ik besefte dat dit altijd het lot van een dichter zou zijn: geïsoleerd en alleen te zijn, naar antwoorden te haken, met als gezelschap slechts letters en niet-aflatende kwellingen.