Quotes About Isolation

A year is a long time to live without the human contact of loved ones, fresh air, and gravity, to name a few.

Gravity is a really heavy force and you don't realize how heavy it is until you haven't felt it for six and a half months.

I am an expert in loneliness and have wandered around a great deal.

I thought 'I Am Legend' did a really great job of it, and 'Omega Man,' that concept of an empty world.

With 'Greenberg,' I wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles... my great love for it and also the way that I felt not at home and alienated there.

The great thing about going to Malawi is I have no contact for at least a week with anything that's happening back in Washington.

I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.

When you get off to an African country like Malawi - which is pretty removed from everything and pretty seriously off the grid - and you see the struggle of life that goes on there, it's a completely different thing than what happens here.

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

It's kind of like those little electric bumper cars where you drive around and see if you can hit the other guy. That's exactly what the country is like now. You no longer have the sense of community. Of loyalty. It's lost its sense of group. It has nothing to do with leadership.

I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

Growing up, I was the awkward, chubby kid. I had a few close friends, but I was the first one to be bullied.

Everybody grows but me.

I don't want anybody guarding me. I want to be free; I want to be left alone... I would like to go out there and have no one know me, but at the same time, it would bother me, y'know.

You're a sitting duck in a mall if you're a celebrity. It's like that scene from 'Guarding Tess,' I think it is, where Shirley MacLaine goes to the mall just to feel good about her celebrity.

I can't even go to the mall anymore. I have to bring 17 security guards... or it feels like it.

I'm full of dust and guitars.

'Chewing Gum' is kind of like the world I wish I grew up in. There wasn't really a sense of community growing up.

If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.

Frankly, I am boring. My life is all about the film set, gym classes, and home.

'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.

An actor's life is abnormal! It feels like I'm being watched all the time, whether I'm at a restaurant, gym, or anywhere. I sometimes feel I don't want to be looked at.

As writers, our craft makes us sit alone at a desk and hammer away at our novel. Doing that day in and day out makes it really easy to forget that there's a whole community of writers out there, and they love contributing to other writers' success!