Quotes About Isolation

I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.

I stay in my own little zone, and that's good for me.

Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.

If I'm not writing, I can download a newer album everybody's making a fuss about. But when I'm writing, I keep myself in my own zone - I worry about listening to new music that'll inform me too much. I'm the kind of person who goes to another country and starts speaking in an accent after three days.

It's quite a layered character that I portray in 'Jalebi' and I needed to deviate and cut-off completely from the world to get into a different zone as a character. I'm really glad it proved beneficial and worked to my advantage.

Not having a safe zone or people to talk to or be around others in the same position is toughest thing ever.

When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.

It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.

I have made multiple videos telling fans not to come to our house. I feel like a zoo animal.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; then I go home alone.

As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.

Blessings never come in pairs; misfortunes never come alone.

The dust and silence of the upper shelf.

Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

Ottawa is a city where nobody lives, though some of us may die there.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.

Far from gay cities, and the way of men.

A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union.

Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.

When you're all dressed up and no place to go.