Harold Bloom Quotes

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.

It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

Sometimes you do have a good time. But when it gets to the point where you're sitting in your home and you're just trying to cover what you don't want people to know. It's painful. And then you want more just so that you don't let anybody see you cry. Or anybody to see we're not happy.

Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.

I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

I'm loyal to my friends, but I have so few now.I force myself to see people when they're here. Or when I'm here. I don't live in England that much now in the sense that I spend time in factories. I'm such a factory man now. This is really what I enjoy doing.

I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.

I suppose books mean more than people to me.

loneliness has its own needs!

Men don't live well by themselves. They don't even live like people. They live like bears with furniture.

The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.