Quotes About Isolation

I'm the kind of person who likes to be lonely. I got my head down and focused on getting fit.

I have to have my Beats Studio3 noise-canceling headphones with me on long flights.

I felt my whole life like I didn't have a family, and I needed one. So I had to build one, and you build one with faith, hope, and the healing power of love - or you end up the 'Unabomber.' That's the choice.

I don't believe anyone wants to hear what I have to say.

All my life I feel like I haven't been heard.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.

When I'm in a hectic crowd of people, I don't feel great. I'm looking over my shoulder. I feel exposed.

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

There's not one person that hasn't felt like they've been on the outside looking in and going, 'What the hell is that?'

Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

It's when people come at you on Twitter and say really crazy things. That's the kind of stuff that I insulate myself from. All of that is not very interesting or helpful, but we have critics who sometimes really love us or sometimes don't, and it's really interesting for me to see what they don't like about it.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

I think, probably when I was 15 or so, I was going through a really hard time with my family, and I just felt really helpless - I didn't know how to put anything I was feeling into words, and I was really confused, and I felt like nobody would hear me, but I didn't even know what to say.

I'm truly 95 percent a hermit.

I'm sort of a hermit.

I know a lot of people who transitioned and dropped out of society for two years. They don't talk to anybody. They become hermits. They try to do everything alone.

I've always been kind of a hermit.

I love to be a hermit.

I'm not a hermit, but I definitely stay in a lot more than I used to. There's more attention now then there ever was. You walk down the street with someone and it's a story. It becomes national news, you know what I mean? So, I still do things, but I stay home a lot more.

I'm quite a hermit.

I enjoy living like a hermit, but I cannot live like a hermit.

I'm a hermit, people rarely see me.