Marguerite Duras Quotes

I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be.

New York is tough on lonely people.

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

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

In N.Y. you're always around people, but in L.A. you can go days without seeing anyone.

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

Paris is always a good idea.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

In a big city like L.A. you can spend a lot of time surrounded by hundreds of people yet you feel like an alien or a ghost or something.

L.A. can be a tough city, very lonely. A lot of people move here to pursue a dream, and that's understandable. But sometimes it's hard to find genuine friends.

I hated London; I was so lonely.

I love Paris, just to stay there and visit. Maybe I'll live there one day.

A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people around us.

It seems like no one has friends in New York, they just have collaborators or co-workers.

Cities can be paradoxical places. In the mornings they buzz with commuters, in the evenings they come alive with diners and partygoers, at weekends the streets fill with shoppers and market traders. But amidst the hustle and bustle, even the greatest city can be a lonely place.

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

I love New York. You're never alone, but you're always on your own.