Quotes About Isolation

I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight.

That's what being a footballer is, really: you train at this time, you finish at that time, then you do that, then you go home, then you're not allowed out, then you do this... there comes a point in your career - about thirty, thirty-one - when you get a bit sick of being screamed at.

I'm just about to move to a place that you can only get there by rowing a boat across a loch, which I'm thoroughly looking forward to it. It's not got electricity or anything.

I live right in the middle of nowhere and I thoroughly enjoy it.

My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation.

I can never thoroughly appreciate meals on ships because, away from land, I feel my autonomy is restricted.

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

Celebrities can suffer a horrible loneliness even though they have millions of fans. I started doing meditations because I realized that a spiritual path was necessary.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there's a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that's lovely.

When you're in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.

I don't like being left to my own thoughts.

Running is something you can do and be alone in your thoughts, and I like that. Maybe I've been a runner my whole life.

It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold.

Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

I get invited to a thousand parties, but do I show up at them? No, I don't.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.