Dorothy Dix Quotes

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.

I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

The wretched have no friends.

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone

As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.

Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.

Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.

Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.

Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.

The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.

I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

I'm so happy to be around people. I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.