Neil Turok Quotes

When you lose work, the meaning and purpose of life are taken away from you, and isolation can set in.

She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.

I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it.

I always felt like an outcast at school. I had good friends, but none that I truly related to.

Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore.

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.

I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.

When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.

All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.

I know nothing. I know no one. I’m lonely. Every time I see you, you’ve put up some new wall, and you never let me in.

The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.