Fanny Howe Quotes

The road is a lonely place, and that sounds like a cliche, you know, like what is my life?

Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest--that I love the best-- Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest.

He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.

I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

The dark night of the soul for me was one night in Florida, when I had been on the road for about four years and I realized that everybody around me was on my payroll, that my old friends hadn't been in touch with me and my family didn't know where to get me. I was a very unhappy guy and it was because I was really alone.

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

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

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

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.

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

I have no friends.

I'm perpetually lonely.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

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.

We're all alone in this world.

I understand being alone. I understand not liking it, wishing for something else.

I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.

I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there.

I am plenty lonely in hotel rooms.