# Quote — John Hoyer Updike, Rabbit Remembered

> [Nelson, to Annabelle] "The misery of the world," he says, reaching into himself to overcome her resistance. "That's what I kept thinking during my group this morning – the pity of everything, all of us, these confused souls trying so pathetically hard to break out of the fog – to see through our compulsions, our needs as they chew us up..."

- Author: [John Hoyer Updike](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike.md)
- Book: [Rabbit Remembered](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-remembered.md)
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- Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [compassion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-remembered/nelson-to-annabelle
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## More from this book

> Like Ronnie said, we're alone. All we have is family, for what it's worth.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-remembered/like-ronnie-said.md)

Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [family](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family.md)

> Who would have thought that the Internet, that's supposed to knit the world into a shining tyranny-proof ball, would be so grubbily adolescent?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-remembered/who-would-have.md)

Topics: [the internet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-internet.md)

> All this probing and grappling we must do, out in society: how much easier, Annabelle thinks, it is to stay in rooms you know as well as your own body, having a warm meal and an evening of television, where it's all so comfortably one-way.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-remembered/all-this-probing.md)

Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [television](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/television.md)