David Wong Quotes

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

It must be awful to feel you're not needed.

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.

I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

I didn't feel like I fitted in. I felt like I was a hindrance to A-ha.

I always felt like a misfit.

I always felt a little bit on the outside.

One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices.

The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you.

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.

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

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I always felt an outsider.

People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.