Quotes About Isolation

I am not the kind of goddess of victory that people cheer for. I am merely a marionette who is fighting to cut off her own strings. At my feet is a hill covered in skeletons...I am nothing but an angel of death.

What if love is made and nothing else? asked Narcissus, leaning over the green iris of water. Nothing else, cried Echo from the green cochlea of the woods. And they were both right. And they were both lonely.

Being without one's family is the worst poverty

Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews.

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

Humans need intimacy. We've destroyed it in our country.

Yves Saint Laurent didn't have friends. He loved nobody. He was intimate with nobody.

When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.

Directing can be very lonely and quite intimidating.

Sometimes, I myself, even though I'm in Washington, I go quiet because there is so much intimidation around me.

That weird dark energy - when I was a kid, I didn't know what it was. I just had to 'thrash it out,' as my mother called it. I became quite intolerable, creatively and artistically, with other people. I wanted nothing more than to be part of a group, and yet I couldn't help alienating people.

I sometimes write in a cafe down the road from my house now because I feel guilty trying to work if I can hear them playing. I invariably end up sat in a corner, depressed, retreating into my own world.

'The Cabin at the End of the World' is my riff on the 'home invasion' subgenre of horror/suspense. Hopefully it's a big, loud, dark riff.

One night I was sick and I watched the old black and white 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' And it freaked me out.

I can't imagine how hard it must be to invest in a community... when you don't feel heard and when you don't feel seen.

The role of a founder-CEO is extremely lonely. You can't always be fully forthcoming with your board or investors or employees.

I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.

Once I married Fernando, I became invisible.

Growing up, I felt a little bit invisible.

There is an invisible moat around the senior royals.

I'm not on Facebook but there are a lot of drawbacks in my offline world. No party invitations, no updates from my friends, people stop talking to you, because you're not on Facebook. So it has real life implications.

Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.

There was nobody in the city I came from - Cork, Ireland - that I could link up with to teach me the guitar.

I couldn't fit in the Irish community in New York. I was never one of the boys because they would talk about baseball or basketball, and I knew nothing about it.