Quotes About Isolation

I can't stand on the roadside and have Pani Puri like before. But, at the same time, being an actor makes you feel special. People look up to you, want to know more about you, and shower you with so much love without even knowing you personally. It's overwhelming.

Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to that and being true to my standards and my way of doing things in my art and my music, everything that has made me feel very different... in the end, it has made me the happiest.

'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'

Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door if they saw it was me standing there. And drunks would always want to challenge me.

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world. Because here's a party that, essentially, it's for you. And you still somehow feel like you don't belong there. Those people all have their lives and go back home.

I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.

In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.

Oftentimes it feels like Fox stands alone in the media on certain stories.

I'm sad when I see San Siro with empty stands.

I got used to playing at half-empty stadiums at Al Sadd. There was no one in the stands in Qatar.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others.

We die alone, but we live among men.

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.

His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.

Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

I am a man who does not exist for others.

Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.