Quotes About Isolation

I still find it difficult to cope with the solitude of writing. I often crave the feedback of working with a team.

The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo aspect of being an artist, when you're in there by yourself, trying to do something great, and people who don't even know you can come up and just dump on you.

The most remote place I've been to was in Greenland. I remember setting out for a solo hike from a small cabin, itself several hours' boat ride from the nearest settlement.

I got no entourage in real life. Solo. I go solo. No entourage.

I'm a solo skater; the sport can be lonely.

My solo music started as a way to really look inwards, and to spend time completely by myself with an instrument, without any outside dialogue.

Being a solo artist in general can be incredibly lonely. It's funny how often the bigger you get sometimes, the lonelier you feel.

I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!

The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.

Life in space isn't easy. It's full of challenges that push the limits of technology, and often requires truly innovative solutions.

I don't typically have a social life, I don't have a family, and I will stay up all night, every night, for days on end, to solve something that I think is solvable. And it's very frustrating sometimes, because I know that I'm like that, and it's not always a positive result.

We will not solve the addiction problem in America if we don't address social connection.

Some people are too prideful to go out and reach out to people to help them in that situation because it's just such a dark time.

Some people do better on their own. I don't.

America has been a very cold place to me, and it was good once in a while. I meet good people. Sometimes I meet bad people. But there are some things that I still haven't forgotten today that hurt that bad.

Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.

I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.

If I had to live on a desert island, and somebody gave me a chicken, there's no way I'd kill it - I'd call it Henry and make it my friend.

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.