Quotes About Isolation

With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me!

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.

I spend so much time alone that whenever I see my shadow I feel crowded.

My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.

She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.

I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.

Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.

If you want to have a character who falls into crisis, all you have to do is turn the Internet off, and then we all understand how that feels, when you suddenly just have time and yourself.

I don't remember spending any time with anybody on set. I don't spend a lot of time with people.

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.

Going into the woods alone is the best way to pretend you're in another time. It's a thing you can only do alone. If there's somebody else with you, it's too easy to remember where you really are.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time.

Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs.

I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can't make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.

Gerard had built a most excellent fortress around himself, a fortress bristling with sharp barbs, its walls stocked with buckets of acidic comments, its high towers hidden in a cloud of dark humors, the entire fortress surrounded by a moat of sullen resentment.

You cannot believe the loneliness', he said at last, so softly that Orla was forced to move closer to him to hear. 'The mensch are so very, very lonely. The only means they have of communicating are physical. They must rely on words or a look or a gesture to describe what they feel, and their languages are so limited. Most of the time, they are unable to express what they truly mean, and so they live their lives and die without ever knowing the truth, about themselves or others.

The story of my life doesn't exist. Does not exist. There's never any center to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it's not true, there was no one.

When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you.