Alice Munro Quotes

Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air

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 as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.

You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world, and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other people had a clearer idea of what they were doing, and didn’t worry quite so much about why.

I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.

Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

I just feel very often like a child in an absolutely weird world. I think that life is quite weird sometimes.

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

I've often felt I don't belong quite wherever I am.

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

Most of the time, I'm a little bewildered or sort of feel out of place.

Though we are more prosperous a nation and more connected a global community than ever before, many of us still feel lonely, disoriented and uncertain of the future.

I feel like a Space Jam' creature.

Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth?

You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.

But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?

I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.

What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.

My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.

Pero yo ya no soy yo Ni mi casa es ya mi casa. But now I am no longer I, nor is my house any longer my house.

It's an abnormal world I live in. I don't belong anywhere. It's like I'm floating down the middle. I'm never quite sure where I am.

There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.