Leon Trotsky Quotes

All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.

You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.

It must be awful to feel you're not needed.

When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No... one... would... care. In fact some, if they noticed my absence, might feel an odd, indefinable sense of relief. This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by.

I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.

It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than others, but as lower than the lowest of mankind. We hate then the whole world, and we would pour our wrath upon the whole of creation.

No, I don't have a boyfriend, I don't want one.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.

Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.

Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.

But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My lips will turn to glue. ...No taste or smell or touch or sound.Nothing to look at. Total emptiness for ever.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.