Quotes About Isolation

Please don't take offense, but I want no part of this family or what comes with it.

You brought me to a sanitarium? Thinking of having me admitted?" "Fortunately for you, it's closed.

When you think of it, people may rub elbows and still have an ocean or two between them.

The ages of isolation had their use, for they trained men for ages when they were not to be isolated.

I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.

When I was in prison, rap was all I had at that point because I was kicked out of school, all that education just gone and I couldn't come out of prison to play football - that was all over with.

Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

It seems like in the beginning of my flight, the space dreams were rare. And now, almost 150 days into it, the Earth dreams are more of the rare ones.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.

Rarely ever see or meet the writer during shooting.

I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.

I live an isolated life, and I rarely meet others.

When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

You only have to see the rate of divorce in cricket. You're away so much and then 18 months later, you're around all the time and not sure what to do with the rest of your life. You go from being at the peak of your powers to being at the bottom of the food chain.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me.

Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

I hate not managing to speak clearly. I really hate it. I get a feeling of claustrophobia - like I'm locked in my own head - if what I've said hasn't reached someone.

If a kid is born into a tough situation with no means of dealing with it, you end up with kids who are mentally ill and have no way of reaching out.

I used to isolate a lot, but now I've been reaching out and leaning on other people.

'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.