Quotes tagged ‘Isolation’

(60 total)

“But now Burnham is back. Instead of a live performance, he's recorded himself in isolation over the course of a year.”

“I don't need everyone to love me. I don't need anyone.”

— Michael Saltzman, Homelander, Antony Starr, imdb.com

“Other emotions and old teenage angst have resurfaced as people have been using their time back home (sometimes voluntary; sometimes not) to go through the closets, boxes and drawers containing treasures from the past.”

— Taylor Trudon, nytimes.com

“Johnson announced his diagnosis in a remarkable video posted on social media, in which he said he would continue to lead the UK government's efforts from self-isolation in an apartment in Downing Street.”

— Angela Dewan, Sarah Dean, CNN, cnn.com

“The only place I get hurt is out there. The world don't give a shit about me.”

— Robert D. Siegel, Randy "Ram" Robinson, Mickey Rourke, imdb.com

“I think that I always struggled with depression and isolation, so those could come out. I think that the mood of Seattle to me, and the way that I always interpreted that mood was something that was always a little bit introspective and dark.”

— Chris Cornell, rollingstone.com

“I spent my life weighed down by a stone heart, drowning in irony and settling for anything.”

— The Wonder Years, open.spotify.com

“Dr. Carson Beckett: [about Teyla] How come I never make friends like that? Dr. Rodney McKay: You need to get out more. Dr. Carson Beckett: We're in another galaxy—how much more out can you get?”

— Robert C. Cooper, Brad Wright, Dr. Carson Beckett, Paul McGillion, imdb.com

“Learning to be alone is one of the hardest and the best things I’ve ever done for myself.”

— Meghan Nesmith, manrepeller.com

“Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press, and launch that lighthouse into space.”

— Aaron Shure, Stanley Hudson, Leslie David Baker, imdb.com

“Jack Torrance: [laughs] Well, it's certainly got plenty of that. Stuart Ullman: ...The winters can be fantastically cruel. And the basic idea is to cope with the very costly damage and depreciation which can occur. And this consists mainly of running the boiler, heating different parts of the hotel…”

— Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson, Jack Torrance, Jack Nicholson, imdb.com

“Please. I need a friend right now. I'm all alone.”

— Jeff Schechter, Ivy Brown, Sarah Davenport, imdb.com

“This world… we’re always on our own.”

— Scott Gimple, Andrew Chambliss, Ian Goldberg, Morgan Jones, Lennie James, imdb.com

“I believe wealth does, in fact, isolate you from other people. It’s a protective mechanism.”

— Donald Trump, screenprism.com

“I never thought I'd get out of that hole. Never. It's not just the dirt floor and the darkness that gets you. It's the isolation. It's the silence. It breaks something in you. I just kept picturing your face. Your face saved me. I'm here because you saved me.”

— Matt Byrne, Jake Ballard, Scott Foley, imdb.com

“You sit in such judgment of the world. How do you expect to ever be a part of it?”

— Rick Cleveland, Olivier Castro-Staal, Alan Ball, imdb.com

“Solitude comes in different varieties.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

“The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.”

— Arthur H. Stainback, books.google.com

“Through legends and artifacts we know that, throughout the planet, learners have needed, on occasion, to isolate themselves from others in order to gain special insights. Whether these periods of isolation took place in the forest, or in caves, whether they were the subject of great ritual, or just…”

— David Thornburg, tcpd.org