Elmer Bernstein Quotes

I have contact with no one involved in the trial.

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

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

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.

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

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

I'm used to living in a disassociated universe.

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

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

Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.

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.

What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

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

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

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

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.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.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

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.