Quotes About Loneliness

A Brief History of the Universe: Billions of days ago, atoms began joining together to form stars and planets. On these planets, cells came together to form plants, animals, and people, and then people started gathering to form civilizations. And do you know why all these atoms, cells, and people came together? Because nothing wants to be alone! The invisible force which controls the universe and sets all things in motion? It's called "loneliness!

And so we find Fussell living alone in a flat unfurnished except for an exercise machine and 'A cardboard cut-out of Arnold with loin cloth and sword as Conan the Barbarian'. Thus the heterosexual bodybuilder's relationship to homosexuality is revealed as a sad kind of insubstantial shadow of it, a kind of mourning, a ghostly kind of love.

like isolated apartment dwellers running the TV for company, we sense a deeper isolation beneath the babble of voices, the poverty of our communications.

Nobody knows you. You are the neighbor of nothing.

So many silent battles are waged By those who sit alone and wait, and by those who delay.

this is the mirror in which pain is asleep this is the country nobody visits

En un campo yo soy la ausencia del campo

In a field, I am the absence of field.

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who don't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves-people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.

I was in a hotel room in Dallas, and I was jerking off so much and so sadly and pathetically, that the phone rang, and I thought it's them, they're complaining. ... "Sir, could you please stop?"

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

Who is sitting in that empty chair?

You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you drinks all night is yourself.

Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.

I watch the Discovery Channel, and you know what I've discovered? I need a girlfriend.

Standup comedy is fun. I mean other than having to experience the excruciating lonlieness and unacknowledged sadness that results in funny.

Sometimes I feel like a vampire

Neil Armstrong, that spaceman, he went to the moon but he ain't been back. It can't have been that good.

It was funny, she thought, but her smile turned wistful because she had nobody to tell.

The shortest horror story:The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.