Roberto Bolano Quotes

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

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.

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

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

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

I know nothing. I know no one. I’m lonely. Every time I see you, you’ve put up some new wall, and you never let me in.

In high school, I didn't always relate to my friends. I was more of a spectator.

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.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

Nobody helps anybody.

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

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.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

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

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.

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

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

I have contact with no one involved in the trial.

I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

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 can go days without meaningful human interaction.