Tom Hanks Quotes

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

The movies were so healing for me because I had such an isolated, lonely childhood. Going to the movies and having the lights go down, you disappear. If you have esteem issues, suddenly you're in a void where nobody can see you. You are just by yourself in that darkness, and your loneliness is cured.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

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.

Far from 'rotting my brain,' as I was often told would happen, TV helped me feel less alone at a time when I spent so much time alone.

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

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

Loneliness sucks. It's a slog. It feels wonderful and exhilarating when someone makes it go away. But love is a whole different ball game.

There are some people who make you feel less lonely.

I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.

I think people come to my music just to feel less lonely.

I think everyone should definitely know they're not alone.

Everyone's been lonely at some point and in need of a friend.

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well... I wasn't entirely alone... It's not possible to sleep alone.

For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.