Quotes About Isolation

Madness is blackness.

Solitude is the path to visit yourself, it is the path to yourself!

Solitude is sanity.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

I always wanted to be the last guy on Earth, just to see if all those women were lying to me.

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.

I can't even go on a spontaneous walk or to a restaurant without armored cars and police, but there is no alternative.

Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.

Boxing is a lonely sport.

I was just kind of sour with the sport. I didn't want anything to do with it. I went into a period of excessive partying and doing anything that wasn't figure skating, really. I went and built a house with my brother. I shut the whole world out and shut everything down.

Boxing is a lonely sport and when you lose it's hard to take and it's hard to get over.

What I have learned in this sport is that it's very easy to feel very alone.

You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.

When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here.

I didn't have any friends. I was bullied. I didn't play sports.

He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.

Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

Between 2014 and 2016, I was just, like, extremely sad. Like, really, really just not able to be in the spotlight.

I only want to play, don't like the life in the spotlight.

It's never really fun to be in the public spotlight.

My life in the spotlight has cost me a lot.

Josh Smith, put in the right spots, is an outstanding player. You put Josh down on the right block, in the low post or even on a short isolation - 12 feet, 15 feet from the basket - he can get to the rim. He's outstanding. He's not only a very willing passer but an outstanding passer. I think it's the best part of Josh's game.