Quotes About Isolation

After floating for nine and a half months in space, gravity is not your friend.

Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children who come and see me. I see all my children every week, and there are the grandchildren, too.

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

I have no connection to Chicago.

I screamed and cried, but no one ever came. No doubt it was in one of those scream-filled nights in which my strong singer lungs and my crazy voice were born.

I ain't got no friends.

I have no friends.

I have no friends from high school. That was probably the reason I ended up dropping out, and I dealt with that by eating.

I didn't have no friends or nothing; I was a nerdy kid.

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

Right when I moved to L.A., I started writing. I wrote some screenplay. I'm sure it's terrible. But I wrote a screenplay by myself. When I first moved to L.A., I had no friends. I didn't know anybody. I just sat in a little studio apartment, and I wrote a screenplay.

It's no fun being lonely.

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.

I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over.

I don't watch TV. When people at my house try to talk about TV, I'm like, 'Ah, I have no idea what I'm talking about.'

It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea what's going on and they don't know anyone's name around them.

Sickle cell was my life before hip-hop. I ain't really have no life - that was it.

There is something very freeing about being anonymous because nothing is expected of you; nothing is getting back to anyone, and no one cares.

No one cares about you when you're in jail.

To be real with you, I have no problem with being a hermit, man.