Michael Thompson

“It’s a deep anguish to be abandoned by your own family. If those of your own blood forsake you are truly forsaken.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more beast than human, and I had grown up to be him, locked in the basement with my secrets as the rest of the family reveled in the petty and ordinary upstairs. Down there, I saw my black, ancient, ineluctable core exposed, like a crab forced out of its shell--dirty, vulnerable, and obscene. For the first time in my life, I was truly alone.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“Hell is being alone for all eternity. Alone, unloved, unloving.”
― Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul

“I don't even exist—I'm no one. Nothing.”
― Sophocles, Antigone