Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

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.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

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.

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.

My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing.

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

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

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

Sometimes I'm not into being a human.

For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.

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

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

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

I hate family pressures and family responsibilities. I'm more comfortable as a stranger. I always imagined I could just live in a hotel. I'm afraid of family.