Charles Dickens Quotes

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it. Now it is necessary for me, as it is necessary for all men, to die in this same loneliness, and I know that there is no help for it.

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

Yes, there is no denying it, any longer, it is not you who are dead, but all the others. So you get up and go to your mother, who thinks she is alive. That's my impression. But now I shall have to get myself out of this ditch. How joyfully I would vanish here, sinking deeper and deeper under the rains.

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.

Loneliness comes with life.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

Mortality defines the human condition.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.