Alex Honnold Quotes

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.

I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they do. People feel like outsiders even if others think we, the lives we live, have everything. If they are popular or they have everything they are supposed to have. Even then, people still don't feel quite included.

My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

I have lots of friends, but I'm probably a terrible friend to all of them, even my family. I wouldn't be surprised if I found myself with no friends later on in life. My friends become my enemies.

I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

When I went through my life, I was like, 'I sit around and play video games all day. Nobody wants to hear about this.'

I saw everything on my parents, and I said to myself: 'I don't want to live my life like this.' They gave me everything they could but it was not amazing.

I don't remember my 20s as a good place.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

Loneliness comes with life.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel.

Where I live, in Vermont, there's this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: their childhood was so idyllic that nothing in the rest of their life can ever be satisfying. It's almost a plague.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

I can't really have any friends. It's sad, really. It's lonely. But that's how I am.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

I'm not invited to any exciting parties and my life hasn't really changed.