Nick Diaz Quotes

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall.

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.

What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

It's very unbalanced actually, to be real. Everything's like deserted.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.

You are forever alone.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.

At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend

I've always felt unclaimed.

Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.