Marian Keyes Quotes

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

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.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.

I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.

I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther into the background. Because with every day that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

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 live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

Isolation is a dream killer.

I have no friends.

I'm perpetually lonely.

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then?