Quotes About Isolation

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

There's a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don't enjoy. There's nothing to do.

I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

Even though I am in this weird position of being a semi-recognizable screenwriter, which isn't that common, at the same time, I'm not an actress. I'm pretty isolated.

When I was in Canada, I had a lot of time to think.

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.

I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them.

By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.

You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you.

I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time.

The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

I feel like I am in a box of bees when I am in a room with lots of people and I'm just looking for the door. I find myself getting more and more agoraphobic as time goes on.

The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.

I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.

That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.

Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.

The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.

You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment and nobody else shows up and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time.

Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only there wouldn't be moose there and the moose would fall.

I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.