Quotes About Isolation

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

'Emergency Contact' is about the anxiousness that is inherent in meat space interactions.

When you're a writer in Hollywood, you don't get to work with other writers. You barely get to meet other writers. We're interchangeable, disposable pieces that never really get to collaborate.

If you look at all the technology we're interconnected with every day, all this complex technology that connects humanity, it actually doesn't connect us.

'Castaway' is my favorite movie, and any time I read about a castaway or a story like that, it just interests me a lot.

If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.

What defines loneliness is our internal comfort level.

The Internet is such... it's so not real. But it's big and it feels big when you're on it.

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.

Most addicts kill themselves by just trying to get some sleep.

They've forgotten about beds, and I understand, because once you set sail on a movie, you are out of touch with ordinary land. Movie-makers between movies seem like you and me; they go to parties, they shop, they swim. But they're just treading water, waiting for another injection, another ship to come take them away in film. And money has nothing to do with it. "Gabrielle

howling on the tile bathroom floor. Sunrise bleeding in her white dress waited just behind Jacaranda's next drink. Her next drink would always be waiting for her, languishing away.

What is a man cast out of the kingdom of men?

About violence, what it feels like to be nothing to someone else. What it feels like to be a consequence of someone else's dissociated rage, disconnected fury.

Wisdom is the fruit of communion; ignorance the inevitable portion of those who "keep themselves to themselves," and stand apart, judging, analysing the things which they have never truly known.

He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.

Após a atenção mediática e as escoltas da Polícia, aquele isolamento e serenidade eram uma bênção. Pouco importava que não tomássemos banho há já uns dias. Para dizer a verdade, havia uma parte de rapazinho em mim que estava toda excitada com isso. Nunca me senti tão bem por estar todo sujo.

Artists walk alone.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

His true Penelope was Flaubert,He fished by obstinate isles.

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

I wonder why the wind, even the wind doth seem To mock me now, all night, all night, and Have I strayed among the cliffs here They say, some day I'll fall Down through the sea-bit fissures, and no more Know the warm cloak of sun, or bathe The dew across my tired eyes to comfort them. They try to keep me hid within four walls. I will not stay!

I do not like to remember things any more. I like one little band of winds that blow In the ash trees here: For we are quite alone Here 'mid the ash trees.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.