Jules Verne Quotes

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back?

How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know. I wish it was always that way. It's getting dark already. It will soon be night, thank goodness.

I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.

I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.

I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.

When I walked out of the seminary, I was 31, but I was like a scared, frightened kid. I had no place to live, no license, no clothes. I was just a lost soul.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

You are forever alone.

Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.

The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.

I just miss - I miss being anonymous.

I really like sort of disappearing.

I just feel very often like a child in an absolutely weird world. I think that life is quite weird sometimes.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.

I want to be invisible.

Even when it comes to notable events, we are in the dark.

is like trying to drive a car at night without headlights.