Thomas Reed Quotes

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

Loneliness comes with life.

I don't have any social life or anything.

I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'

I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.

I don't care about a social life.

What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

I'm just like any other man. I understand why people become reclusive. One of my weaknesses is that I sometimes allow people in that shouldn't be in my life.

That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

Be first and be lonely.

We should be asking the hard questions that mean you may not have any friends at all—and some of us don’t.

Sometimes, you're before your time with ideas, and you have to accept that you can't know.