Fiona Apple Quotes

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.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

In football, I don't have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many... Most of the time, I'm alone.

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

I've always felt so unconnected to other comedians.

People come and people go, moving fast and moving slow, I'm in a crowd and yet I'm all alone.

The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.

Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it.

There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation.

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.'

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

I never felt like I belong to anything - to any groups of friends. I never really had that.

I lived alone, I didn't know anybody in New York, and I was definitely a recluse. It had been, like, two weeks, and I realized I hadn't said anything. I was laying in bed, and I was like, 'Hello?' I just talked to hear my own voice. And it was such a strange feeling.

Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone

I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.

Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline. Part of me wanted to go, but those kind of outings always made me feel even more alienated than usual. Hearing them talk made me feel lonely and hateful at the same time. Lonely because I didn't fit in, never did. When I was reminded, it hurt. And hateful because it reaffirmed what I already knew, that I was alone and on the outside.

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.

I have everything and I have nothing. Sometimes I feel like the loneliest man on the planet. All this 'stuff' and no one to share it with. And then when women come along, I wonder if they like the stuff more than me.