Jeanette Winterson Quotes

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.

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'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all.

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.

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

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

I'm perpetually lonely.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.

Eating cold tuna fish out of a tin on a porch while two people are in love across a lake - I think that's desperately lonely.

Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.

I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.

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

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.