Nick Nolte Quotes

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

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

There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

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 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.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

I'm constantly astounded by the way people talk so openly to someone they don't know. They clarify in their own minds what is important to them, discover another person has similar problems, and create trust and even a friendship.

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.

Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.

I think, for a long time, I didn't have people who understood where I was coming from. They were giving me advice on what would be good for them.

The more specific you are about a very general feeling of loneliness is actually how you connect with people.

I think everyone is lonely whether you are in a good marriage or a bad marriage somewhere down the line you become lonely, and to get rid of that loneliness you have to try really hard.

We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.