Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I meet so many people, but I don't know anybody.

What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.

People come and people go, moving fast and moving slow, I'm in a crowd and yet I'm all alone.

There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation.

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

I have contact with no one involved in the trial.

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

In a big city like L.A. you can spend a lot of time surrounded by hundreds of people yet you feel like an alien or a ghost or something.

We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.

I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.

I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.

Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.

My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street - what do we have to say to each other? Hey there! Hi ya!That's about it. Nobody raises a hand. No one turns around to take another look.

I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.