Ira Sachs Quotes

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

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

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 had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.

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.

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company.

I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get through.

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

I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors.

We all have our things that we go through, and I wanted to be an artist that people could listen to and feel like they're not alone. I want to be empowering.

It's important to me to create archetypes of human experiences and make them so that the song has a sense of purpose when you experience those emotions. You know, just making people feel like they're not alone.

One of my impulses in acting has always to make people feel less alone.

I would say that for me while growing up, music was my best friend in many ways, and I hope my music can do that for others, to make them feel less alone.

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

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

When you're watching somebody read your material and they smile and nod, you know you've found that place where your experience and their experience match, even though they aren't the same exact experience.

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

When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.

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.

There are some people who make you feel less lonely.

'Waterfalls' spoke to so many people at a time where people needed to feel like somebody was on their side.

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.

I feel Noah has been alone for the majority of his life and inherently searching for a family, even though he may not express that outwardly. But his encounter with Rosalee gave him hope in finding someone who thinks like him.