Tom Hanks Quotes

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

At the end of the day, humans are social animals and we are at our best when we get to do things with others who appreciate and enjoy what we enjoy. It's what keeps us human.

I am fully present wherever I am. Why bother being in a community or neighborhood and not being fully present? I think that's colonization. I'm not interested in that.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

For most of my childhood, even through college, there was a lot of feeling very alone. I loved TV, so when those very special episodes of anything came, or when certain characters reflected the world I lived in, I felt connected.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

I want everyone to identify with my tracks and for all of us to be part of it in some way or another.

My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they're not alone in going through the things that they go through.

I think 'Lost Boy' is just really relatable. You can be any age from any place in life, and you're bound to feel lonely at some point.