Richard Bach Quotes

I have this morbid fascination with being completely alienated from everybody, and a lot of the time I really do feel that way.

Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake it all. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there.

It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.

My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.

What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.

And indeed when we are no longer in love with women whom we meet after many years, is there not the abyss of death between them and ourselves, just as much as if they were no longer of this world, since the fact that we are no longer in love makes the people that they were or the person that we were then as good as dead?

A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

A lot of people spend their time just floating/ We were victims together but lonely.

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people.

There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had.

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

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

The art of not experiencing feelings. A child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully, understands her, and supports her. If that person is missing, if the child must risk losing the mother's love of her substitute in order to feel, then she will repress emotions.

He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.

And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.

I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.

There is a chasm between me and the world outside of me. A gap so wide my feelings can't cross it. By the time my screams reach the other side, they have dwindled into groans.