Tom Hanks Quotes

The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.

The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.

Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

As a child, I spent a lot of time alone. I used to sit in my closet with one cracker. I'd pretend that I was on the North Pole freezing to death, and I had to somehow survive on this one tiny cracker.

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

I'm blessed with a great memory. To be honest, a lot of times, being on my own at such a young age, my memories were all I had. I didn't have many pictures.

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.

I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

I'd like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I'd like to know what happens.

At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend

Getting through the day becomes more important than living a long life when you have no one else to live for.

Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say.

When I went to prison, for three years I didn't say a word to another human being until, going into the fourth year, when I realized, 'You know what, I have to find a way to live.'

Loneliness is always there, it's a phase that comes and goes and it is a very difficult phase.

'Castaway' is my favorite movie, and any time I read about a castaway or a story like that, it just interests me a lot.