Tom Hanks Quotes

In solitude, where we are least alone.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

I do say all I've ever written about is being alone. And most people take that as, 'Oh, that's so sad.' And I always say, 'No. No, all I ever write about is being alone, and sometimes that's a beautiful, beautiful thing.'

You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to time.

We must relearn to be alone.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.