Perfume Genius Quotes

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.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.

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

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

I hated London; I was so lonely.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at.

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door.

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture... Probably a genetic flaw. I can't really explain it.

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

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 felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.

Living, it's awful for me.

Oh, what a void there is in things.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

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

During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.