E. M. Forster Quotes

I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.

I have this morbid fascination with being completely alienated from everybody, and a lot of the time I really do feel that way.

I just always assume no one is listening.

From the time I was little, I always felt like an outsider. I always felt nervous and uncomfortable with myself.

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

I wonder if I shall ever see her again, and I realize that I scarcely care. I can feel the sheets beneath me, and the cold air on my chest. I feel fine. I feel absolutely fine. I feel nothing at all.

I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.

There is a chasm between me and the world outside of me. A gap so wide my feelings can't cross it. By the time my screams reach the other side, they have dwindled into groans.

Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.

Nobody helps anybody.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

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.

I was a guy who abandoned a TV show. I didn't care about people.

I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.

I don't worry anymore about where's the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn't tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say.

I never loved the world around me as it was.

My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I think everyone kinda feels a little out place sometimes.