Quotes About Isolation

Am I the only human on board this ship?" To her deepest chagrin, he hesitated. And when he finally answered, it wasn't what she wanted to hear and gave her no comfort whatsoever. "Define the word 'human.

The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn't know who I was.

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

As a result of the assault on Christianity, the Christian faith has been isolated more and more into a tiny private sector of life and removed from the whole public spectrum of America.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.

When we're alone together, I'm the destination. When I'm here in her life at school, I'm the disruption.

I don't really have a social life.

My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified and valued.

I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there.

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.

Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.

You really don't do anything else in your life; it's a very little bubble that you grow up in. And you have to live in that bubble because of the intensity of the sport.

In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.

If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.

When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic.

Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.

Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life.

The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.