Juan Goytisolo Quotes

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I didn't really have the personal agency to express it.

Humans are almost always lonely.

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.

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

Isolation is a dream killer.

Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

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