Quotes About Isolation

When I came to England, everybody was indoors all the time, and nobody said hello to each other. That was weird.

To be off the grid is to be disconnected from most of America's infrastructure without having to cross any border.

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

People don't understand how hard it is to be injured, not to be part of the team but to watch from the side.

It's an emotional time for you when you get injured. You're going through so much. You have a lot of time to think to yourself.

When you get injured for a long time, it's not nice because you are out of the team and not involved anymore.

It can be a lonely place when you are injured. You miss being out there with your team-mates and just experiencing the highs and the lows.

But when you are an injured footballer, especially when you are out for as long as I was, you find out all about the dark side of the game.

There are injuries nobody's even around the guy, and the guy's getting hurt.

You can understand why it is difficult for the players who have long-term injuries when they have to watch the boys going out training every day.

Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle.

When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.

They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums.

When you're growing up, it's very easy to feel lonely and insecure.

Because I am basically so insecure and anxious and afraid, I never, ever in my life learned to reach out for help, ever.

We can experience an erosion of self-esteem when we're lonely, as we come to believe that it's because we're not likable or because something is broken inside of us. And that can just compound that loneliness further and further.

I can feel myself dying inside.

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

I do feel like I'm not entirely an insider.

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

I had nothing and lived in the most insignificant place.

I'm not on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram.

I was always the last one on Facebook, Instagram - everything.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.