Don DeLillo Quotes

Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

It's lonely up here.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

Seek truth from facts.

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

The writer is all alone.

All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements.

I'm used to living in a disassociated universe.

I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.

I don't care about a social life.

I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

I got no entourage in real life. Solo. I go solo. No entourage.