Zal Batmanglij Quotes

There is a definite loneliness in the game. Most people stay away from you since they think they're intruding upon your time. And after the ball game, when it's 11 o'clock and you want to eat dinner some place, the restaurants are closed.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.

I don't have many friends.

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.

I have no friends and I never leave my house.

I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel.

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

I don't have many friends.

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

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

We should be asking the hard questions that mean you may not have any friends at all—and some of us don’t.

Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say.

The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.

I want to be together with everyone else but stay lonely.

I've never really fit in.

I tried so many times to fit in but I could never ever fit in. I was always like, an outcast.

In a lot of ways, in high school, I was very much an outsider and never really felt like I fit into any particular clique or group, and so I found myself solo very often.