I don't have any friends at all
'Cause I have nothing in common wit' y'all
So who's gonna catch me if I fall?
My back's always against the wall...
'Cause I have nothing in common wit' y'all
So who's gonna catch me if I fall?
My back's always against the wall...
—Gnarls Barkley, "Whatever"
If you see him in the subway
He'll be down at the end of the car
Watching you move until
He knows he knows who you are
When you get off at your station alone,
He'll know that you are
Know when you see him, nothing can free him
Step aside, open wide
It's the loner.
He'll be down at the end of the car
Watching you move until
He knows he knows who you are
When you get off at your station alone,
He'll know that you are
Know when you see him, nothing can free him
Step aside, open wide
It's the loner.
— Neil Young - "The Loner"
"I walked for miles inside this pit of danger
I've swallowed down a thousand years of anger
The weight of the world is falling on my shoulders
A place where no one follows me I walk alone"
I've swallowed down a thousand years of anger
The weight of the world is falling on my shoulders
A place where no one follows me I walk alone"
—Saliva - "I Walk Alone"
To love you must have someone else,
Giving requires a legatee,
Good neighbours need whole parishfuls
Of folk to do it on - in short,
Our virtues are all social; if,
Deprived of solitude, you chafe,
It's clear you're not the virtuous sort.
Giving requires a legatee,
Good neighbours need whole parishfuls
Of folk to do it on - in short,
Our virtues are all social; if,
Deprived of solitude, you chafe,
It's clear you're not the virtuous sort.
Philip Larkin, "Best Society"
"The next morning Hiro Sakurai made his big debut at Fukuyama High. One by one, groups of students tried to befriend him, and they all came back with the same verdict ... He was a cold fish, through and through. I had never seen a student care so little about fitting in. It was as if he wanted to be left alone. And, sure enough, he was. By the end of the week, Hiro Sakurai had systematically frozen himself out of every clique in whole school. Even the losers wanted nothing to do with him."
— Narration, Miki Falls 1: Spring
"Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom."
— The Bible, Proverbs 18:1 (King James Version)
"You know, it's a real thin line between tortured genius and awkward kid who can't get girls because he's... creepy."
"Even at a young age, I already felt... so powerless. Nowhere to run... Parents suck... No friends... The Loner. I am."
—Eman Cruz, Mag Isa
"Not alone, 'Lone'. Alone is an unfortunate predicament, lone is an aesthetic choice."
— Batmanuel, The Tick (2001)
"I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportunity to succeed. There was even going to be a party for you. A big party that all your friends were invited to. I invited your best friend the Companion Cube. Of course, he couldn't come because you murdered him. All your other friends couldn't come either because you don't have any other friends. Because of how unlikable you are. It says so here in your personnel file: Unlikable. Liked by no one. A bitter, unlikable loner whose passing shall not be mourned. Shall not be mourned. That's exactly what it says. Very formal. Very official. It also says you were adopted."
— GLaDOS, Portal
"Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human."
"To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both — a philosopher."
"Virtuous men alone possess friends."
— Voltaire, Portable Philosophical Dictionary, regarding Friendship.
"Recently, a television interviewer quoted me as having said, 'I seem to have met everyone, but I know no one.' Grinning like a tiger in anticipation of antelope, she leaned forward, gently salivating, eager to hear a tragic sigh, see a tear of self-pity... I told her briskly that I had never wanted to meet most of the people I had met and the fact that I never got to know most of them took dedication and steadfastness on my part."
—Gore Vidal, Palmpsest
"I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the bores."
"The rest of the bog hut’s interior is pretty unremarkable, except for the cages. Now, the comment Nancy made to Ned regarding the hut aggravated me, and it still does:
There’s a bed in it, as well as all sorts of weird things. Like cages. Some big enough to hold a small child.
What “weird things” are there really in this hut? Herbs, sewing materials, a fireplace, a bed, a dresser, cages, and various tools. For someone living in the middle of nowhere, away from virtually all human contact in the middle of a bog, those things don’t seem too far-fetched. Personally, what upsets me the most about Nancy’s comment is that the cages could have any number of mundane or innocent uses. The hermit could have spent his/her time tending to wounded animals that could no longer survive in the wild, which would easily explain the dishes in the cage that Nancy has to clean. That was my main reason for writing this meta - the fact that Nancy assumes the worst simply because this hut is in the middle of a bog and was once inhabited by a person who didn’t, for whatever reason, want to take part in “normal” society."
— A blogger
talking about the undertones of this in Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy
talking about the undertones of this in Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy"People out there have a lot of funny ideas about quiet people, the worst one being that all quiet people are alike. There are about 10 million reasons why someone might not talk very much, running the gamut from being shy, to hating you, to having sold their voice to a witch in return for legs. People who don't recognize this come up with their own ridiculous assumptions about what quiet people are up to."
—Christina H, "6 Misleading Assumptions You Make About Quiet People", Cracked
", Cracked"Poor, young, awkward, annoying Dustin didn't get to play any of the reindeer games, a fact he sourly recalls time and again in his book. A book, mind you, which also claims that Zack, Kelly, and Peter Engel would have “bisexual threesomes” in his office, a fact he gauged from the closed-door meetings he wasn't invited to, suggesting four years spent imagining the other dressing rooms were host to writhing orgies akin to the final days of Rome, while he was sat alone with his Nintendo."
—Stuart Millard, So Excited, So Scared: The Saved by the Bell Retrospective
Shinji: "Your father abandoned you after your mother was gone,"
Asuka: "You have nightmares all the time about it. The memory keeps coming after you when you try to sleep,"
Shinji: "It's hard to sleep. You feel lonely and cold at night, because no one ever held you after that,"
Asuka: "You never had many friends before you came here. No on ever wanted to just talk to you for you."
Shinji: "Your father never explained or apologized for why he just left you."
Asuka: "No one even tried to understand your pain. No one cared."
Shinji: "You miss her every day, but don't even have any pictures, barely any memories. No one tells you about her."
Asuka: "And there was never any point in talking about it to anyone, because there was no one in the world who could understand what being an Evangelion Pilot was like,"
Asuka: "You have nightmares all the time about it. The memory keeps coming after you when you try to sleep,"
Shinji: "It's hard to sleep. You feel lonely and cold at night, because no one ever held you after that,"
Asuka: "You never had many friends before you came here. No on ever wanted to just talk to you for you."
Shinji: "Your father never explained or apologized for why he just left you."
Asuka: "No one even tried to understand your pain. No one cared."
Shinji: "You miss her every day, but don't even have any pictures, barely any memories. No one tells you about her."
Asuka: "And there was never any point in talking about it to anyone, because there was no one in the world who could understand what being an Evangelion Pilot was like,"
—Advice and Trust, chapter 1
"Only the birds and the beasts live in solitude."
—Lord Hidetora Ichimonji, Ran
"You cannot live in isolation from the human race, you know."
—Minister, Carnival of Souls
"Meanwhile, show up at Gameplay Land and ask if it will be possible to play singleplayer, and the game reacts like you sat down at an expensive restaurant and ordered a bowl of Corn Flakes. You go to the privacy settings — once you can find the fucking things, 'cause this game has a worse menu system than a McDonald's drive-thru after a major earthquake. What is it with ultra AAA games having shitty interfaces these days? Is it the same principle by which Las Vegas casinos are laid out? To get you lost and unable to glimpse the sun in the hope that you get confused and accidentally drop all your money? — and your options are: "Public Match, As God Intended" or "Private Match For Big Stupid Losers". Then, when you set it to private and try to start solo, a window pops up, saying, 'Ha ha ha, sorry. Someone's clearly made a dreadful mistake. Surely you don't actually want to play a solo private match. Just click here and we'll set it back to public play so you can rejoin all the normal people.' But I didn't click that, and then the tip on the fucking loading screen was something about how playing multiplayer earns more rewards and doesn't make the little Baby Jesus cry. What the fuck is this, guys?! Am I on suicide watch?!"
