Daniel Tammet Quotes

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.

I know I'm really lucky to do what I do, but sometimes with the hours and the travelling, I don't get to see my family and friends as much as I'd like. It can be lonely on the road. Sometimes I come offstage after a massive adrenaline rush, and then when I go to an empty hotel room on my own, it can be an anti-climax.

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.

There are people who don't like popularity. It's much better to be exclusive and remote.

The experience of pregnancy - it depends on your situation, but it can be quite isolating.

It seems you can ask any friend, any relative, and they'll be able to tell you about someone they know with autism.

You go into another time zone when you are a parent of an autistic child, where any micro movement in a positive direction is such a cause for celebration.

With social distancing restrictions in place, many are finding themselves isolated from their support networks and suddenly navigating parenthood differently than they expected.

The most evil and insidious thing about mental illness is that it isolates us and makes us feel so different that we think no one can possibly relate.

I'm always connecting with what society would label the outcasts and the weirdos and the lost souls.

Social networking like Facebook or Twitter is very popular, but one thing I have found is that the more social networking tools you are using, the more alone you feel.

During Shabbat, I am completely cut off, there is no one to talk to, and I do not compromise about it.

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

It's [F1] your life. You're focused on just one thing and there's no room for anything else. Friends don't necessarily understand, because the way you think about life develops completely differently to how it does for normal people.

I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else.

Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of the time, they do not even know what is on. But they are desperate for the sound of another human voice in their lives

I just haven't let myself get to a place where I've felt a part of any kind of a community, so I've always stayed outside of it.

Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.

Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.