Eleanor Rigby

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.

I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

Well, it’s amazing what you can find in this world if you’re willing to sleep with people.

Lonely people want to be dead, yet we’re still not quite ready to go—we don’t want to miss the action; we want to see who wins next year’s Academy Awards.

I once read that for every person currently alive on earth, there are nineteen dead people who have lived before us. That's not that much really. Our existence as a species on earth has been so short. We forget that.

I don't remember where I was before I was born, why should I be worried about where I go after I die?

But that's what family members are for. We crave them and need them not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about but because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

The best thing about being young is being stupid. Or rather, the best thing about being young is being too stupid to know how stupid you really are.

A rich man is always simply a rich man, but a rich woman is only a poor woman who just happens to have money.

Loneliness is my curse---our species' curse---it's the gun that shoots the bullets that make us dance on a saloon floor and humiliate ourselves in front of strangers.

I'm not cheerful or domestic. I'm drab, crabby and friendless. I fill my days fighting a constant battle to keep my dignity. Loneliness is my curse- our species' curse- it's the gun that shoots the bullets that make us dance on a saloon floor and humiliate ourselves in front of strangers.

What about life after death?" "What about death after life after death?