Natsuo Kirino Quotes

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone." "Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Depression can take you into a black hole, so it is terrible.

It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then?

When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?

Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.

We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

Yes, there is no denying it, any longer, it is not you who are dead, but all the others. So you get up and go to your mother, who thinks she is alive. That's my impression. But now I shall have to get myself out of this ditch. How joyfully I would vanish here, sinking deeper and deeper under the rains.

People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book..." and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.

He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone.

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.

Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else.

The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Nothing good comes out of depression.