Louis Theroux Quotes

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

There is nothing else to do in my life... I have no family, relationships - this is the only thing that I do.

Despair - or as I like to call it, des-pair - means feeling unpaired in a world in which it feels like everyone else is paired with a good job, a happy marriage, loving family, caring, and hope - and you're not.

It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

I have these wonderful homes, and no one to share them with.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

All these older kids here, and I'm the only one from a town that's so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you'd run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

Oh, what a void there is in things.

You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.