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Top 20 Mikel Jollett Quotes (2025 Update)

Mikel Jollett Quote: “So it feels like a ladder I must climb up to the clouds to get away from this emptiness, to be somewhere warm. Except every time I climb it, when I get to the top, there’s nothing there but quiet and cold and another ladder to climb.”

1. “So it feels like a ladder I must climb up to the clouds to get away from this emptiness, to be somewhere warm. Except every time I climb it, when I get to the top, there’s nothing there but quiet and cold and another ladder to climb.”

— Mikel Jollett

Mikel Jollett Quote: “To make the pain useful. The longing, the fear, the heartache and dread. The ability to see these broken pieces of yourself like cracks in your armor through which you are better able to see the world: too broken to be normal, just broken enough to see beauty.”

2. “To make the pain useful. The longing, the fear, the heartache and dread. The ability to see these broken pieces of yourself like cracks in your armor through which you are better able to see the world: too broken to be normal, just broken enough to see beauty.”

— Mikel Jollett

Mikel Jollett Quote: “The attachment disorder made us unable to trust close relationships because the first thing we ever learned is that people leave you. Then it also made us panic at the prospect of being alone. It’s slow, difficult, excruciating work.”

3. “The attachment disorder made us unable to trust close relationships because the first thing we ever learned is that people leave you. Then it also made us panic at the prospect of being alone. It’s slow, difficult, excruciating work.”

— Mikel Jollett

Mikel Jollett Quote: “Some people are likable simply because they give off the constant impression that they like you, and something about this trait is calming and easy to trust.”

4. “Some people are likable simply because they give off the constant impression that they like you, and something about this trait is calming and easy to trust.”

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Mikel Jollett Quote: “But when these moments end and the buzz is gone and the reality sets in that I know I am lost and that this facsimile, however splendid or romantic, cannot erase the basic feeling that I am alone and it is because I am damaged and it will always be that way, the whole thing seems less like a romantic story and more like an intoxication from which I awake to see the consequences, like those kids on LSD in the 1960s who died thinking they could fly.”

5. “But when these moments end and the buzz is gone and the reality sets in that I know I am lost and that this facsimile, however splendid or romantic, cannot erase the basic feeling that I am alone and it is because I am damaged and it will always be that way, the whole thing seems less like a romantic story and more like an intoxication from which I awake to see the consequences, like those kids on LSD in the 1960s who died thinking they could fly.”

— Mikel Jollett

Mikel Jollett Quote: “I feel like a blank space covered in skin. There is no place for this walking blank thing among the warm beings, the ones with something inside, the people who can have a drink and laugh at a joke and look into their features and see something other than the wretchedness I see in mine, the day that immeasurably thin skin falls away and I simply disappear. Into the ocean. My ocean. The one that will swallow me whole if I let it.”

6. “I feel like a blank space covered in skin. There is no place for this walking blank thing among the warm beings, the ones with something inside, the people who can have a drink and laugh at a joke and look into their features and see something other than the wretchedness I see in mine, the day that immeasurably thin skin falls away and I simply disappear. Into the ocean. My ocean. The one that will swallow me whole if I let it.”

— Mikel Jollett

Mikel Jollett Quote: “Take your pain and make it useful. That’s what it means to be an artist. I never want to go home anyway.”

7. “Take your pain and make it useful. That’s what it means to be an artist. I never want to go home anyway.”

— Mikel Jollett

Mikel Jollett Quote: “Children experience loneliness like shame. They imagine the reason they are alone is that there is something wrong with them, that they have done something bad, something that makes them too gross to touch.”

8. “Children experience loneliness like shame. They imagine the reason they are alone is that there is something wrong with them, that they have done something bad, something that makes them too gross to touch.”

— Mikel Jollett

Mikel Jollett Quote: “I feel like an amoeba in the presence of gazelles.”

9. “I feel like an amoeba in the presence of gazelles.”

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Mikel Jollett Quote: “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

10. “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

— Mikel Jollett

Mikel Jollett Quote: “Children with attachment disorders grow up to have difficulty in relationships, which they seek out of need and then destroy out of fear, resulting in a lack of self-worth and a sense of isolation.”

11. “Children with attachment disorders grow up to have difficulty in relationships, which they seek out of need and then destroy out of fear, resulting in a lack of self-worth and a sense of isolation.”

— Mikel Jollett

Mikel Jollett Quote: “Children of narcissists learn their feelings don’t matter to the narcissistic parent. The child carries an ever-present sense that he must bury his own ideas about the world, his own self, and do the thing required of him to please the narcissist, to receive the impossible-to-reach love and approval he craves. In short he doesn’t really know himself because he spends his life seeking to fulfill the fantasy world of the narcissistic parent.”

12. “Children of narcissists learn their feelings don’t matter to the narcissistic parent. The child carries an ever-present sense that he must bury his own ideas about the world, his own self, and do the thing required of him to please the narcissist, to receive the impossible-to-reach love and approval he craves. In short he doesn’t really know himself because he spends his life seeking to fulfill the fantasy world of the narcissistic parent.”

— Mikel Jollett

Mikel Jollett Quote: “Children of neglect. Orphans. Inappropriate demands. Physical boundaries. There is the sense that something is off, something indelible. that I missed it. I missed something essential, something everyone else can see.”

13. “Children of neglect. Orphans. Inappropriate demands. Physical boundaries. There is the sense that something is off, something indelible. that I missed it. I missed something essential, something everyone else can see.”

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Mikel Jollett Quote: “There is only this frozen ground, this river of black water, this empty well, this blankness, these ghosts, nothing to do but forget about shelter and become the storm.”

14. “There is only this frozen ground, this river of black water, this empty well, this blankness, these ghosts, nothing to do but forget about shelter and become the storm.”

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Mikel Jollett Quote: “Our personal space is violated by such parents who do not recognize our need or desire for space, because they see us only as extensions of themselves.”

15. “Our personal space is violated by such parents who do not recognize our need or desire for space, because they see us only as extensions of themselves.”

— Mikel Jollett

Mikel Jollett Quote: “It’s a mask, this face you create for others, one you hide behind as you laugh at jokes you don’t understand and skip uncomfortable details, entire years of your life, as if they simply didn’t happen.”

16. “It’s a mask, this face you create for others, one you hide behind as you laugh at jokes you don’t understand and skip uncomfortable details, entire years of your life, as if they simply didn’t happen.”

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Mikel Jollett Quote: “You’re gonna have to accept that your trauma caused him trauma. It’s hard for kids to deal with emotional abuse. You crossed all boundaries. You neglected his needs. You made him your caretaker. I don’t know what to tell you. That’s abuse.”

17. “You’re gonna have to accept that your trauma caused him trauma. It’s hard for kids to deal with emotional abuse. You crossed all boundaries. You neglected his needs. You made him your caretaker. I don’t know what to tell you. That’s abuse.”

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Mikel Jollett Quote: “We simply are left with the feeling that we are not allowed to say no, because we were taught that the narcissist’s needs are more important than our own.”

18. “We simply are left with the feeling that we are not allowed to say no, because we were taught that the narcissist’s needs are more important than our own.”

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Mikel Jollett Quote: “There’s no container for the thing he was now that he’s gone. It’s an irrational number. Infinity divided by zero. That’s probably why we put people in containers when they die: coffins, urns, mausoleums – to give a physical shape to the absence.”

19. “There’s no container for the thing he was now that he’s gone. It’s an irrational number. Infinity divided by zero. That’s probably why we put people in containers when they die: coffins, urns, mausoleums – to give a physical shape to the absence.”

— Mikel Jollett

Mikel Jollett Quote: “That’s the whole magic trick of an essence brought to life by a song, to become an artist when you feel broken and you’ve decided to turn it into beauty. To make the pain useful. The longing, the fear, the heartache and dread, the ability to see these broken pieces of yourself like cracks in an armor through which you are better able to see the world: too broken to be normal, just broken enough to see beauty.”

20. “That’s the whole magic trick of an essence brought to life by a song, to become an artist when you feel broken and you’ve decided to turn it into beauty. To make the pain useful. The longing, the fear, the heartache and dread, the ability to see these broken pieces of yourself like cracks in an armor through which you are better able to see the world: too broken to be normal, just broken enough to see beauty.”

— Mikel Jollett

Mikel Jollett Quote: “It seemed like writers have the most important job in the world, to make books, to create a connection, a kind of telepathy between two minds in which one can inhabit the other.”

21. “It seemed like writers have the most important job in the world, to make books, to create a connection, a kind of telepathy between two minds in which one can inhabit the other.”

— Mikel Jollett

Mikel Jollett Quote: “Life isn’t working out? Okay. Pack the car with as many books as you can carry, bring a guitar and an old keyboard, fill your empty pages with lyrics and stories. Read the books, the ones you always wondered about. Swallow your pride and because you can’t do anything else, hold a job or maintain a relationship with another human being, move to a tiny trailer at the edge of the world and just get on with it. Write.”

22. “Life isn’t working out? Okay. Pack the car with as many books as you can carry, bring a guitar and an old keyboard, fill your empty pages with lyrics and stories. Read the books, the ones you always wondered about. Swallow your pride and because you can’t do anything else, hold a job or maintain a relationship with another human being, move to a tiny trailer at the edge of the world and just get on with it. Write.”

— Mikel Jollett

Mikel Jollett Quote: “Shyness is nice and shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you’d like to.”

23. “Shyness is nice and shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you’d like to.”

— Mikel Jollett

Mikel Jollett Quote: “Why be normal? Destroy yourself and dance in the embers. Embrace the catharsis. Use it.”

24. “Why be normal? Destroy yourself and dance in the embers. Embrace the catharsis. Use it.”

— Mikel Jollett

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