Quotes About Isolation

Old people are considered worthless fuddy-duddies and often overlooked, which makes them sink into loneliness. I noticed it as soon as I started to age.

We had decided to totally disappear from the media, to not do any interviews and photo shoots. Tom and I just needed time to ourselves.

I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.

If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you don't quite know what problems are worth working on.

I don't usually socialize a ton with other people when I'm at the racetrack.

I'm a big 'Omega Man' fan because of how insane he seems, just driving around in that car really fast. It has, like, a very strange tone to it.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road.

When I was growing up, I didn't have tons and tons of friends.

I was a lonely child. My brother Tony and I were never very close, neither as children nor as adults, but I was tightly bound to him. We were forced to be together because we were really quite alone. We were in the middle of the Irish countryside, in County Galway, in the West of Ireland, and we didn't see many other kids.

You don't see too many people on a farm. I didn't grow up dealing with a lot of people.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

As a child, I just found a lot of things quite difficult. I found school quite overwhelming. There were just too many people. I wish I could have gone to a school with about five people. And if I saw someone bullying someone else, for example - I don't mean because I'm a perfect person, because I'm really not - but I'd always be, 'Well, why?'

I don't like people; I don't let too many people into my life.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.

It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head.

It took me four months in Biosphere 2 to make a pizza.

If you took a child in London and took their iPhone and took them somewhere else in the country, they'd probably not be able to find their way back. That's a shame.

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

Saudi Arabia is a very responsible country. For decades, we used our oil policy as responsible economic tool and isolated it from politics.

Social networking like Facebook or Twitter is very popular, but one thing I have found is that the more social networking tools you are using, the more alone you feel.

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.