Amy Tan Quotes

The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Myself, I suffer from loneliness. And I think we all feel alone. I'm looking for stories that help people deal with loneliness and help them if they are monsters: they don't have to undertake monstrous actions. And maybe they're not monsters.

No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final.

The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

What I'm interested in is human beings alone.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

We're all in this alone.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

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.

Artists walk alone.

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.