Simon Van Booy Quotes

This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.

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.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.

For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.

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

I'm always feeling like I don't belong, no matter where I am. So I'm just searching for a family nonstop, and sometimes I find it in the mosh pit, sometimes I find it when I'm doing some French TV show with the president's wife.

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.

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

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

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.

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

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

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

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

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.

There are some people who make you feel less lonely.

The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.

No Christian needs to feel lonely or useless.

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

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

I am your homegirl, at the end of the day, but I also feel very... outside. So if you're finding solace in feeling outside with me, then we're good to go.

When people are with me, who can say I am alone.