T. S. Eliot Quotes

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

Disaffection stalks around us.

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

I guess I had that insecurity of missing out on the normal things that everybody else does. With all the traveling I was doing I felt I was leaving something behind.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.

I wouldn't like to grow old alone.

I have wonderful friends. I'm not just a lonely old lady.

We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true.

I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.

Yves Saint Laurent didn't have friends. He loved nobody. He was intimate with nobody.

When I went through my life, I was like, 'I sit around and play video games all day. Nobody wants to hear about this.'

Despair - or as I like to call it, des-pair - means feeling unpaired in a world in which it feels like everyone else is paired with a good job, a happy marriage, loving family, caring, and hope - and you're not.

Any woman will tell you after the menopause, nobody whistle at her, well - that's just the beginning. As you get older people don't want you at their parties, we all are prejudiced about old people.

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

There are no more vices left - I don't drink or smoke and at a party, after a while, I am lost. I don't dance to the beat of that drum anymore.

I was working in cartoons. I could go to Comic-Con, buy the Hal Jordan ring, I could buy animation cels, but at the end of the day, I come back to an empty apartment. I had a life that was only around me, and when I was broken, my world was broken.

Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?

Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?

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.

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.