Thomas Pynchon Quotes

I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

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

Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

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.

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper.

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

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.

In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

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

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

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.

My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.