David Foster Wallace Quotes

Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

Isolation is a dream killer.

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

I'm perpetually lonely.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

I think, as people, we're isolating ourselves. We're talking to each other through our phones, arguing... those divisions freak me out.

I was a very isolated teenager.

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

We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.

Growing up in the '80s in central New Jersey as a weird kid with a blue mohawk listening to the Sex Pistols and dressing really funky, I was bullied pretty badly. It was every single day in elementary school and kept going into middle school, too. I felt totally alone, without a single person there for me.