“I feel alone. I don t mean i feel lonely; I mean i feel alone, the same way i feel the blanket resting on my body, or the feathers of my pillow under my head, or the tight string of my sleep pants twisted up around my waist. I feel alone as if it were an actual thing, seeping throughout this whole level like mist blanketing a field, reaching into all the hidden corners of my room and finding nothing living but me. It s a cold sort of feeling, this.”
“Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one s cow has exploded.”
“I wish I didn t have to think about you. You wanted to impress me; well, I m not impressed, I m disgusted...You wanted to make damn good and sure I d never be able to turn over in bed again without feeling that body beside me, not there but tangible, like a leg that s been cut off. Gone but the place still hurts.”
“Eventually, we all end up alone.”
“To be alone with yourself is to be alone. To be in the company of others is to be alone together. The only time you are not alone is when you forget yourself and reach out in love -- the lines of self blur, and just for a wild, flickering moment you experience the miracle of other. And now you know the secret.”
“Nobody makes anybody enlightened. Just tell them what you want to say, then let them decide for themselves.”
“There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you ll miss their companionship and you ll also miss their disrespect.”
“The feeling of abandonment overwhelmed me as I realised that no one had waited, or cared where I was.”
“Well it’s good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody’ll say, ‘why don’t you come over for dinner?’ and I can just say, ‘Car won’t make it.’ I don’t have to tell them that time is scarcer than young pussy around here, and I don’t mean time to write POETRY. I mean time to lay in bed, alone, and stare up at the ceiling and not think at all, not at all, not at all…”
“You re alone, as I m alone, and the cruelest thing is that finding each other and saying let us be alone together won t solve a thing.”
“Loneliness is a state of feeling that can be changed. People may still feel lonely even among the crowd.”
“I ve never been the most important thing to anybody - not even myself.”
“I was caged within a four dimensional cube that eclipsed the world around me in an icy mist. I screamed; begging someone, anyone to hear my pleas, but my voice had been extinguished and left me with a slight wheeze from what little oxygen I had. I could glimpse the field of energy as it shrank through the safety of my circle to envelop me in a blazing grip. I was alone; unbearably separated from my haven.”
“Cause nobody s the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves - except, that is, in the glimmer of a moment of fair business between strangers, or the nod of knowing and agreement between friends. Other than these, we go out anonymous into the insect air and all we are is the dust of colour, brief engineerings of wings towards a glint of light on a blade of grass or a leaf in a summer dark.”
“Smile and the world smiles with you...Weep and you weep alone.”
“Do you know that pain of leaving when you look back expecting to see a face waving goodbye at you but all you see is a dark abandoned corner? There won t be any reason to return then. All you can do is look ahead and not to stumble and fall on the pit ahead waiting for you.”
“You re not alone, there is more to this I know. You can make it out, you will live to tell.”