Quotes About Isolation

I'm constantly writing, maybe a little more than other guys in the band. I find it a very therapeutic thing to do on the road, where you're estranged from your hobbies.

All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.

I didn't know many people in London and became depressed, ending up in therapy. One day, the therapist called me Josh instead of Jacob, and I was mortified. I was telling this woman things I'd never told anyone, and she didn't even know my name.

What's worse - loneliness or a relationship that inevitably leads to costly therapy sessions?

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.

There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.

You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.

They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.

I tend to be very private. It's easier for me. When you're acting, you're very susceptible to comments that somebody makes, so if they know something is going to happen on the show, and they say something, it can actually throw you off. So I tend to not share things with anybody.

I get a lot of letters from prisoners. They say things you can't imagine.

In North Koreans, the moment we are born, we don't know there's another life existing outside of our country. The regime always told us all the bad things about the outside world, describing America as full of thieves, all human scum, beggars, everyday people dying on the streets and hospitals.

I was always small and thin. I wasn't the kid who got invited to parties.

One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone.

Frightening things happen in solitude.

Extraordinary things happen in solitude.

I think I will always feel like an outsider.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

After we released 'Drakengard 3', I think everyone was well sick of all the games I made by then, and I really didn't really want to work anymore. I was thinking I'd probably just go and hide in the mountains and live out the rest of my life as a hermit or something.

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him.

Part of me relates to Perez Hilton because he's an outcast. I don't have a lot of friends who are actresses. They're catty, and they'll cut you down. I like that Perez is proud of who he is and doesn't care what anybody thinks.