“Take this treasure, Leave one of your own, And remember this truth: You are not alone.”
“When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!”
“She used to think alone was the answer. Alone would stop the whispers and the taunts. Alone couldn t get her into any more trouble. Alone meant not getting hurt. Now, she d give anything to see another human being. To hear someone call her name”
“I can’t cure anyone. I can’t guarantee they will heal. I can only tell them my story, remind them that they are not alone in their journey and offer a glimmer of hope for healing.”
“and sadness clung to me because she did not know how to be alone.”
“It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don t think I can handle it alone.”
“Sometime it s really hardest things to keep yourself alone.”
“Perhaps it is impossible to understand one s own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?”
“In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth.”
“...you needs uh man.” Janie laughed at all these well-wishers because she knew that they knew plenty of women alone; that she was not the first one they had ever seen. But most of the others were poor. Besides she liked being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine. These men didn’t represent a thing she wanted to know about. She had already experienced them...”
“We re all on each other s food chain. All of us. It s an individual sport. Welcome to the meaning of individual. We re each deeply alone here. It s what we all have in common, this aloneness.”
“C era una volta un uomo invisibile, che s era stufato di non essere visto da nessuno. Non che fosse davvero invisibile. Il fatto era che la gente era abituato a non vederlo. E se nessuno ti vede, esisti davvero?”
“Everyone just outgrew me. Now I think I m just haunting them.”
“Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435”
“I think most people are afraid to love because they want the freedom to suffer alone.”
“A week goes by and I don t call Lucy or Dylan. I want to drift away from them - more than anything, I want to drift away. I sometimes imagine myself totally alone and I enjoy the feeling. And I mean something by alone, something more than the word holds. I mean something blank and pure and vacant, plus me. And also moral. This blank and pure vacancy that includes me that is also moral is so empty, it is so no one, that my presence in it makes me not exist, although I am still there, and that s what lifts all the weight.”
“Being alone is blissful when you want to...It s terrible when you are forced to..!”