Dirk Bogarde Quotes

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.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

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

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

People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.

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.

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

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

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

It's lonely up here.

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

When you got on the private plane, you had your own private lounge where you could close the door. So there wasn't a lot of friendly conversation; we were in incubators by ourselves. That just bred a void - avoid each other, and avoid the issues.

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

Isolation breeds conceit.

I am out of humanity's reach.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

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

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

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

I don't have many friends.

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

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