Quotes About Isolation

I'm most fascinated by remote places and lonely islands, which are also the hardest places to reach.

There are certain jobs where you can just as easily, in some cases more effectively, work remotely. If you take an engineer, for example, when they get into the mode of coding, being on their own where they're not distracted or interrupted is very helpful.

I would love to live in the wilds of nowhere, and when writing 'Chronicles,' I would occasionally rent a cottage in the middle of nowhere that had no mobile reception, but I'm not about to move away from my family.

There were about two years when I literally paid no rent anywhere in the world. Everyone's a contact, but there's no real human interaction. That's a very wearying thing.

When I first did 'The Lord of the Rings,' I was acting on the set with the other actors, but then I had to go back and repeat the process on my own to do the physical capture on a motion capture stage.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

I scarcely talk to reporters at all.

'Recluse' is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters.'

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered. So, representation is super important.

If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

How hard could it be? Is it really going to hurt? You get into that deep well of emotion if you are by yourself. Why am I here? What's the point of going on? If I can't do what I want to do, then what's the point?

People are hurting, and they feel very disengaged and disenfranchised.

It can be isolating to be an entrepreneur... you have to keep hustling to make it happen and that can be lonely.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time.

Everything is expensive in Iceland, especially food, and especially healthy food.

I dont think any of the players will ever say they got close to me. Id never sit down and have a coffee with them.

I always identified with Frankenstein because as a kid, I never got the girl.

I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .