Enrique Vila-Matas Quotes

I can't be alone.

Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

When I was a child, there's one thing I said: 'I never want to be alone.' That's what I would say. I don't want to be alone.

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone

It's amazing how you don't realize just how alone and scared you were until you have someone by your side to support you.

The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.

The movies were so healing for me because I had such an isolated, lonely childhood. Going to the movies and having the lights go down, you disappear. If you have esteem issues, suddenly you're in a void where nobody can see you. You are just by yourself in that darkness, and your loneliness is cured.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.

I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

I don't like being alone.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.