Quotes About Isolation

If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.

I need my time to be lonely.

I don't need friends.

There's one downside in comparison to both Soyuz and SpaceX, is that when you go to those places - when I went to Russia, or when I went to California - you're sort of focused on what you're doing. Your family's not there. Your lawn isn't needing to be cut. You're just focusing on what you need to do.

Needless to say, when I work on a film, it's mostly just me alone in my room just waiting to present the music to the director - and either he likes it or not.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.

In America, the old are neglected.

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

I don't want to wake up at 60 and have to call the neighbor who's 12 to help me with my computer.

The size of the city and the nature of how independent the neighborhoods are means that not only do people who live outside Chicago not know what is going on there, Chicagoans often don't know what is going on there.

When I was a young mother at home with a two year old and a five year old, living on the Eastside in one of those neighborhoods where all the houses look the same, where all the cars look the same and the lawns look the same, I was writing in secret.

Military families are increasingly living away from military bases, embedded in civilian neighborhoods. It gives military families and civilians the opportunity for greater exposure to one another, yet many feel lonely and isolated.

Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.

Neighbors are frightening enough when they're alive.

Let me put it this way, I lived in L.A. for 10 years and did not know my neighbors.

I myself lived in London for 20 years, and I never knew my next-door neighbors. I never knew what they did. I never knew their names. They didn't know what I did for a living, and they didn't know my name.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

I didn't have very many friends growing up. I was very much a nerd. I read comic books, and I wanted to do well in school.

I was nerdy and awkward and didn't know how to talk to people - except online.

One very early influence was reading about John Cage's experience in an anechoic room where the only sound you are left with is the high-pitched drone of your nervous system.