“And I’m sorry that I wasn’t there for you. I should have been there to encourage you to get better and to help you through something I didn’t fully understand. But because I didn’t understand it, I got angry and ran away from something really scary.”
“It takes a very selfish person to not feel lonely at times.”
“Alone is better than an army. But two is better than alone.”
“I don’t want to be lonely, but I don’t want to be miserable either.”
“It was almost empty save a few undergrads who had made their way over to this graduate student part of campus, probably for the quiet, the decreased chance of recognition. I d once been like that, so lonely that I craved further loneliness. Even after I d made a few friends in college, I would still go out of my way to create whatever conditions I needed that might allow me to be alone.”
“Maybe I m just tired.”
“Hunger, Red - to sate a hunger or to stroke it, to feel hunger as a furnace, to trace its edges like teeth - is this a thing you, singly, know? Have you ever had a hunger that whetted itself on what you fed it, sharpened so keen and bright that it might split you open, break a new thing out? Sometimes I think that s what I have instead of friends.”
“A genius has no one to go when he is thinking up a new field. He can t ask anyone anything because no one knows about the new field he is tackling. He has to find the answers himself. If you want to make real progress in life, you have to start finding your own answers.”
“Everything works out eventually,” my friend told me. “It gets better.” But I don’t know what that means. I don’t know what there is to work out. I can’t fix a problem I can’t identify, I can’t hope for something I can’t visualize, and I can’t make myself happy when all I know how to be is sad.”
“You said you couldn’t believe in anyone who didn’t believe in you. I believed in you. You just didn’t believe in me.”
“Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.”
“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.”
“Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.”
“This world that I live in is empty and cold; the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.”
“The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.”
“Online communities are an expression of loneliness.”
“Suicide does not mean there was no killer.”