Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

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

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.

In the end, the only thing between us was silence.

We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.

And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.

There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

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

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.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

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

You can grow apart from people very quickly.

I'm used to living in a disassociated universe.

I have X'd myself from your world.

I've been out on the periphery.

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.

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

I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.