Tao Lin Quotes

I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.

I'm perpetually lonely.

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

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.

Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

Isolation is a dream killer.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true.

I've always felt so unconnected to other comedians.

In my early years, I couldn't find a community. I couldn't find anybody like me. I felt so isolated. There was nothing but shame and loneliness.

I think people are isolated and really lonely.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

Strangers are an endangered species.

Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own?

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it.

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.

Humans are almost always lonely.