Bernard Malamud Quotes

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

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

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

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone

I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.

Some people say dying alone is a fate worse than death itself. Well, they should try being alone during the living part sometimes. There's no quicker way to make you wonder why the hell you ever thought you'd want to return.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

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

It's lonely up here.

Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

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

I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

People come and people go, moving fast and moving slow, I'm in a crowd and yet I'm all alone.

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

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

And then the days came when I was alone.