Halsey Quotes

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.

People come and people go, moving fast and moving slow, I'm in a crowd and yet I'm all alone.

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

I have very few friends. I'm an associate of everybody and friend of none.

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

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

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.

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

I'm used to living in a disassociated universe.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

I meet so many people, but I don't know anybody.

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

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.

All these cities I go to, I never see them. They may be the most beautiful places in the world, but I'll just usually go to the nearest bar. I need a couple of hours by myself.

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

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

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

Nobody knows me.

I am plenty lonely in hotel rooms.