Paul Cezanne Quotes

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

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

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.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

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.

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

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.

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

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.

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

I meet so many people, but I don't know anybody.

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

More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.

I have always been misunderstood.

I pushed away a lot of friendships.

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also a symptom of the modern world.

I've lived a very isolated life.