Death Quote by David Foster Wallace

But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike…

— David Foster Wallace

“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The desperate loneliness is nothing compared to the torture of falling in love and then being abandoned.”

— A.J. Nuest

“The revelation of loneliness, the omnipresent, unanswerable feeling that I was in a state of lack, that I didn't have what people were supposed…

— Olivia Laing

In our youths, many of us suspected that being tied down to a partner and family might constrain us. But after 40, even that…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

“Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind. Thirty — the…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

— Paul Dickson

“Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.”

— Sorin Cerin

“I happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness, that we, as a people, have bought into the false dream of convenience, and…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Forty seemed about right, and it occurred to me that it's too bad for a fella to die at forty, a real shame. It's…

— Stephen King

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.

— John Corry

“There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.…

— Charles Bukowski