William Faulkner Quotes

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough

I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.

I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I, only I And none of this can I say Because feeling is like the sky - Seen, nothing in it to see.

I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.

Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting "out there" was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in.

I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?

I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”.

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

Living, it's awful for me.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

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

The 'Burials' title really speaks to all the different levels that are on the record. It speaks to silence and panic and anxiety and loss of self and isolation and those different levels of hiding.

Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.

The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing, no one waiting for her. That no matter how far she walked, how carefully she searched, how much she wanted to find the person she was looking for, she was alone" - The Forgotten Garden