Ellen Key Quotes

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

I do become a recluse once in a while. It's so nice to just be at home and to not have to deal with the outside world.

People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.

I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.

I live in a bubble.

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.

You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.

The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.

I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends... I just want to disappear and study.

I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

I kind of live under a rock, to be honest. I very much stay in my little film world.

I don't know if it's just me getting older or if it's a reflection of times changing, but it just seems to me like among most of my friends and peers, there's a lot more time being spent at home than out.

I don't party now, and nobody really knows how to party with me anymore. So I stay in a lot. I really am a home person.

I suppose we do live a pretty isolated life.

All I do is I have this insulated life with my wife and my daughter and a couple of friends who I try to see, but it doesn't even happen.

I was always making new friends, then losing them.

When you got on the private plane, you had your own private lounge where you could close the door. So there wasn't a lot of friendly conversation; we were in incubators by ourselves. That just bred a void - avoid each other, and avoid the issues.

I've lived a very isolated life.

I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.