Alan Ball Quotes

'Community,' that loaded word so beloved of politicians, is simply not a reality in most people's lives. It's normal for us to be cut off from each other.

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.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.

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.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

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.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

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

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

I don't have any social life or anything.

I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

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

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

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

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

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

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

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

I meet so many people, but I don't know anybody.

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.