Peter Weller Quotes

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.

I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world.

I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home and watch movies.

It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of the time, they do not even know what is on. But they are desperate for the sound of another human voice in their lives

For me, I value connection a lot, talking to people and connecting. Don't get me wrong: I enjoy having my own time, but I think it's really important to have that connection, so living on Mars would be a struggle for me.

When you spend 12 hours a day in front of a computer, that can become your world.

I could be imagining it, but I believe myself to have exchanged sly, understanding nods with other people I see attending movies alone on Christmas Day.

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.

I'm basically as shy a person as I was when I once worked in an office in London in the late Sixties. I like my own company. I didn't need a lot of friends.

I try not to spend too much time online but at the same time if I didn't, I'd be isolated.

For about four years, all I did was watch television. I suppose my parents should have stopped me.

Sometimes I go totally anti-social.

Loneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than the connections we have. In the gap, we experience loneliness. It's distinct from the objective state of isolation, which is determined by the number of people around you.

I think in some ways, I would go back home, and I didn't really quite fit in and couldn't - didn't have a person to bounce those experiences off of. So I felt a little bit trapped within me, and it made me feel lonely because I really couldn't - the things that were exciting to me, I couldn't really share those with another kid and that other kid understand that.

I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.

Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think solitude is an interlude in a period of time, which is populated by others.

I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.

I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.