Quotes About Isolation

I try to keep Alaska fresh by doing laundry and bathing at least once a month.

I can only spend $140 a month in here. I'm saving, like, $10,000 a day.

A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

I'm only at home for, like, a month when I'm doing an album - at the most.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

It's difficult when you're not out there. I guess not playing for a while, you can definitely be a little moody.

I'm still blown away by how desolate Iceland can be, how deserted it is. It's very often like living on the moon.

Being the composer of 'Minecraft' is basically like imagining the distance between earth and moon.

I have this morbid fascination with being completely alienated from everybody, and a lot of the time I really do feel that way.

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

More and more of us live segmented, compartmentalized lives. This isn't natural. For millions of years, our forebears knew everyone around them and everyone knew them.

Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people.

There was about two years where I was more or less agoraphobic and didn't deal with anybody, didn't talk to anybody, didn't have any friends at all.

I was more or less a carnival attraction. I was a freak show.

There are no Hollywood stars speaking out for the elderly. They're forgotten, bewildered, and I don't think it's because people are cruel or don't care. It's because you don't want to think about your own mortality. I think people don't talk about it enough.

We all feel like we're alone, but as artists, we get to see firsthand from our fans that we're not. Hearing them scream the words to your songs is the most amazing feeling.

I mostly play one-player games like 'Batman' and 'Assassin's Creed.'

Mali exists mostly to itself. Few people go there. Few Malians leave. Most of Mali's 13 million people live, and seem to live quite happily, off the rice, corn and millet they grow and the long-horn cattle and goats they keep.

I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn't let you play with.

When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.

I think that's why a lot of people are very lonely and get ill when they're older, because I think loneliness and having no motivation, nothing to work towards... I think it kills you.

The thing I wasn't prepared for was when I wasn't in Motley Crue anymore. 'Cause as much as my phone was ringing, it stopped ringing.

he knew he would always be the sad one: caged in that little round of skull, imprisoned in that beating and most secret heart, his life must always walk down lonely passages.  Lost.  He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one