Tom Junod Quotes

One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.

When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely.

I always felt different in a lot of ways and didn't really know how to express that.

I just feel like no one is the same.

I've often felt like an outsider, not necessarily because I'm Korean, an immigrant, or female. I think writers are odd people.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

I've always just been more comfortable as an outsider.

I don't belong to anyone.

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.