Frank Herbert Quotes

L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.

My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street - what do we have to say to each other? Hey there! Hi ya!That's about it. Nobody raises a hand. No one turns around to take another look.

It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.

I guess I always think of myself as more of the people. I always feel like a bit of an outsider.

He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.

There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.

Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for Midori from the dead center of this place that was no place.

One day you're cut off, at the very start you're cut off and can't go back, the language you learn and the whole business of walking and all the rest is for the sake of the single thought, how to get back again.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.

My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.

I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.

So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.

All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

When I was teaching, I didn't feel I had a home, a place where I truly belonged.

People are strange when you're a stranger.

I was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people did not approve of me, did not accept me and did not love me. It was killing me.