Quotes About Isolation

When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.

I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers or readers. I write the story the way it comes to me.

There's always been a quality to being a science-fiction reader. Usually, you're the only one in your class, or there are only one or two in your whole town. You're always the guy who reads that strange stuff.

I have very few real friends because I don't really feel like I fit in with a lot of people.

In life, usually, even if you live in a big city, you can count on your fingers on one hand how many real friends you have; that's human.

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

In 2017, I enjoyed my time on the Internet more than doing things in real life.

I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.

I connect with very few close friends in real life.

I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.

People ask about love. Real love. I was never in love; the people around me didn't love me. They were just along for the ride.

I'm much more at home with Daffy Duck than I am with a real person.

You don't realise how long three years is until you go away and write an album.

I didn't know how to socialise with other people. I went to Harefield and it was strange at first but then I realised I was only here for one thing and that was the football. That was one of the many things that kept me grounded and kept me going.

Your health is the most important, and I realised that when I was quarantining.

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

All good writing comes out of aloneness.

I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.

I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.

I went from being very popular and the head of the clique in the sixth grade to having, like, kid depression in the seventh grade. Not leaving the house. Not looking people in the eye... My body made me feel bad at everything.