Jules Verne Quotes

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

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.

Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you move away from where you started.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

I don't have any social life or anything.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.

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 think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

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

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

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

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

New York is tough on lonely people.

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don't talk to me or stop me.

I always felt a little bit of an outsider, especially because I grew up on Oahu.