Alex Scott Quotes

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

I have contact with no one involved in the trial.

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.

I pushed away a lot of friendships.

Those reflective moments for me usually come from loneliness and separation from people.

I'm one of these guys who always feel like the outsider, you know? I'm always longing to be part of something, you know?

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.

There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!

I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [...] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves.