Meg White Quotes

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

I'm used to living in a disassociated universe.

I feel like I'm in my own world: in the world but not a part of it.

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.

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band.

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

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.

I've been out on the periphery.

I don't belong in the world. That's what it is. Something separates me from other people.

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

I've never been super close to family. I've never relied on anyone.

I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.

If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

In the end, the only thing between us was silence.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.

We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.

This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.