T. S. Eliot Quotes

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.

I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?

People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book..." and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.

Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door.

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say.

I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.

I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there.

Loneliness is always there, it's a phase that comes and goes and it is a very difficult phase.

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

Sometimes I'm not into being a human.

I never ran away, but I was very unhappy as a teenager. I felt like a complete nonentity, and I very tangibly have memories of not wanting to be here - in my body.

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough

I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet. When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.