Marjane Satrapi Quotes

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

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 have contact with no one involved in the trial.

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

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

You go through your life feeling like an outsider, and you respond to society in a different way when you feel like an outsider.

Those reflective moments for me usually come from loneliness and separation from people.

Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [...] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves.

I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

Besides, the normal people here wouldn’t see it. That was what “different” meant. It’s just another word for lonely.

I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went about the business of living--and did it with such ease, with a skill that they took for granted and that I had never known.

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.

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

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

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

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

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

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

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.

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.