Quotes About Isolation

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the disease, and it left me totally exhausted and depressed. I just hid myself away in my daughter-in-law's flat.

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

I have quit chewing tobacco and don't touch any lager beer, and I don't speak to the girls at all. I am getting to be a perfect hermit; my fiddle, my dog, and my gun I almost worship.

The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.

I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist.

Depression is like the worst disease you can get. It's devastating.

Before, I would literally watch people ringing me trying to help me, but I wouldn't take the calls. It's the worst place to be, having that fear that it's never going to get better. You have to talk.

My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.

That's the worst thing about dementia: it gets you every time. Sufferers look and act the same but beneath the familiar exterior something quite different is going on. They're in another world and you cannot enter.

I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

I did a lot of research on what solitary confinement does to you, how you become acclimated to being surrounded by people again after being by yourself for such a long time. It's really a horrific thing. It's definitely worth considering it as torture. We're just not meant to be in solitary confinement.

Sometimes at night during the season I was going through hell. Waking up in, who knows, Sacramento, in L.A., in the middle of the night alone in a hotel and thinking, 'Why am I here? Is it really worth it?'

Celebrity is worthless and useless, it takes away your privacy.