Quotes About Isolation

I am not on social media, as I don't feel the need to communicate with the outside world. People who matter to me are just a call away.

I'm not on any social media; I don't even know what things are. I'm so behind the times.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

As an adult I've developed better social skills; I know how to do a conversation, I know how to do a party. I find them wearying, though, and I like that in lockdown no one expects me to go to them.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

You realize that as much as you want to socialize with the people on the set, or you want to, after a day shooting, joke around or whatever. Somehow, with playing Jesus, this doesn't happen. You actually need to decompress and be on your own and prepare on your own. It never happened to me before.

As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.

I would come to New York, work, and then get out of New York. I didn't go out to dinner with other people on the Management Committee. I didn't socialize. I didn't politick.

When I look at it, I don't really like people, and socializing is really awful. Outside of my family, friends, and those connected to my job, I don't think I actively want to meet anyone. I've always lived in the country, after all.

I'm a loner. I like to be alone. I'm socially awkward.

Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that.

I'm not particularly interested in my phone. I'm interested in human contact. I think phones have created a certain social incapacity; it's made people socially deficient.

Having money didn't make me less of a socially incapable loser; it just made me a socially incapable loser who wasn't in debt.

The first album was a coming-of-age album - I don't like the phrase, but when you listen to it, you can tell I was having a hard time, that I wasn't socially relating to people.

I can't go out socially. I never go to soap awards now. I don't recognize people I know and they would think that I was snubbing them.

I've had enough off-screen romances and now I'm happy being socially and emotionally challenged, on and off camera.

Parallel societies are exactly that: They exist side by side and rarely meet.

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You're on the outskirts of society.

To me, personally, an ideal society would be a world where only I and those I care for exist.

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.