Nicolas Ghesquiere Quotes

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

I'm perpetually lonely.

It's no fun being lonely.

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 meet so many people, but I don't know anybody.

I never have anything to talk about.

I know what it's like when the phone doesn't ring. It's the loneliest feeling in the world.

I ain't got no friends.

I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.

I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.

I don't feel a connection with younger people or with Generation X, or any generation, I feel. If I felt a connection with people my age I wouldn't have written six books about feeling depressed, alienated, lonely. If I did I would have many friends and feel connected with them and probably be a happy person who has a real job.

In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene.

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

I'm surrounded by people and feel alone.

There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it.

Dena had always been a loner. She did not feel connected to anything. Or anybody. She felt as if everybody else had come into the world with a set of instructions about how to live and someone had forgotten to give them to her. She had no clue what she was supposed to feel, so she had spent her life faking at being a human being, with no idea how other people felt. What was it like to really love someone? To really fit in or belong somewhere? She was quick, and a good mimic, so she learned at an early age to give the impression of a normal, happy girl, but inside she had always been lonely.

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

I didn't relate well to people my age. Maybe the truth was that I didn't relate well to people, period. Even my mother, who I was closer to than anyone else on the planet, was never in harmony with me, never on exactly the same page. Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain.