Quotes About Isolation

I know what it is to be misunderstood.

Just feeling misunderstood sometimes, I guess, has been my biggest downfall.

I think a large part of being human centers on the state of being alone, and we try to mitigate that in so many ways.

I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.

I've been ghosted by all four members of Little Mix.

A lot of people say I am different from other actors and actresses because I don't mix around with a lot of filmy crowd.

I'm a man who doesn't even have a mobile!

I've never really had time to think about my thoughts. I've always had people around, my mobile phone... everything was so fast-paced.

With me, even if my life depended on it, I wouldn't be able to cry. Not with somebody there. Because even if I'm talking about bad and upsetting things, if there is somebody else in the room, I am trying to entertain them. If there is somebody there, I am in performance mode. I can only cry if I am on my own.

I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.

With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.

In modelling, it's very hard to keep in touch with the people you knew when you started.

I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.

You're shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.

Songs bring us into connection with each other. When they resonate, when we're in resonance, singing together, we become one for that 3 1/2 or four minutes the song lasts. It takes away that isolated loneliness that modern life is so full of.

Modern life undermines any attempt at building communities and making connections with people without commerce.

There are several factors in modern society that contribute to loneliness. One is that we are more mobile than we have been in decades past, which is fantastic in many respects, but also leads to us to move away from communities that we grew up with and got to know over time.

You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything.

The modest three hours a day I spend with my colleagues is about right - I certainly couldn't imagine going into quarantine with them.

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

I don't know how else to say it: I'm a monster.