Jonathan Tropper Quotes

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.

Living, it's awful for me.

I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what that tells you. People who look like... they're waiting for a sandwich that's never going to come. I don't know what's wrong with me.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Sometimes I'm not into being a human.

I never ran away, but I was very unhappy as a teenager. I felt like a complete nonentity, and I very tangibly have memories of not wanting to be here - in my body.

I'm always sad.

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough

During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

Somebody who had read Lila asked me, ‘Why do you write about the problem of loneliness?’ I said: ‘It’s not a problem. It’s a condition. It’s a passion of a kind. It’s not a problem. I think that people make it a problem by interpreting it that way.’

No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it's hard to carry on when, No one loves you.

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

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

My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.