Quotes About Isolation

I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.

As a child my life was shrouded by fear. Every night I would crawl into the alcove outside my sisters' bedrooms and sleep on the floor, just to feel as though I wasn't alone.

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

When you lose everything, and I mean everything, you sit there in this empty room in the dark, and the only person who can get you out is you.

If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.

Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candle like Ebenezer Scrooge, and watching my ledgers fill themselves with ink.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann's I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment.

But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.

We have always argued that attempts to isolate Belarus, like other countries, lead to a dead end. In this situation, everyone loses.

I had a few really bad years in school, just from not fitting in and being bullied. It was kind of brilliant being a military brat, though, because when you're in that kind of situation, you just think, 'I only have to hang on for another year, because then we'll move. It'll be fine if I can just get out of here.'

I would go into a place that was quiet and isolated and think about how my character would feel in the situation, considering who he was and what he had been through. I would think about that even up to 30 minutes. And when I felt the character was in my body and I had left, I could walk onto set or into rehearsal.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

When I was three, I didn't play with other kids very much; I was kind of isolated. I got used to be being bullied and having to think my way out of situations in the same way that other kids would fight their way out. Then I discovered a piano, and it became my playmate.

When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving my room.

I am not made for lonely expeditions. In the sixties, I climbed during the day so I wouldn't have to be alone. I finally learned to stay up for weeks in the high altitude all by my own without being afraid.

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

The scenes in 'The Virgin Suicides' where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing.

I sketch literally all the time; constructing a collection is like building a family - you have to have a certain balance. I isolate myself - I need to be concentrated for this so I leave Paris, I leave to a place without a phone.

You get really disillusioned, because you thought you were in love. But you realize that you're just alone.

If so many people love me, how come I'm alone?

Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear