Francis Picabia Quotes

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

Loneliness comes with life.

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

I hated London; I was so lonely.

I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.

Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

Nothing remained but loneliness and grief.

I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't.

But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

Loneliness has been following me my whole life.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.