David Eagleman Quotes

I want to be around people, not crickets.

You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then?

Loneliness comes with life.

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.

I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.

That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all

If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty fingers into an obscure sky, and the snow looks up like a face dirtied with tears. Should I cry out and see what happens? There could only be a stranger wandering in this landscape, cold, unfortunate, himself frozen fast in wintry eyes.

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

I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.

... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.

The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.

I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.

Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only there wouldn't be moose there and the moose would fall.

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

I could picture life—school and everything else—continuing on without me. But I could not picture my funeral. Not at all. Mostly because I couldn’t imagine who would attend or what they would say.

Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.