Malcolm X Quotes

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

I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.

You can grow apart from people very quickly.

I have X'd myself from your world.

I've been out on the periphery.

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

… splendid isolation

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

Sometimes the wheels just fall off a relationship.

Whenever my country has something bad happening I feel guilty for not being there. It's weird.

I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far from it and given it the changed look, the composed look, of something receding in which one has no longer any part.

There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

Billy wanted me to stay a safe distance from the most important person in my life. It turned out that his concern was, in the end, unnecessary. I was all too safe now.

The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

Sherlock Holmes becomes more human and more adept at fitting in with a lot of people, but he remains separate from the human race because he finds that a better place to observe that from. He stays on the mountain top because there, he can see clearly.

Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.

When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.

I am out of humanity's reach.

Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same state, only a few towns over.

But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.