Marcel Proust Quotes

The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

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.

A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.

Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

I think I should be here alone to rethink the world - I do. I want these lesser humans gone.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

I don't have many friends.

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

I don't have a lot of friends.

Loneliness comes with life.

I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.

If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.

We're all in this alone.

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.