Cesare Pavese Quotes

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

As someone who is displaced - I left London almost fifteen years ago to make Connecticut my home - I am drawn to stories about people who don't belong, whether physically or emotionally, and who find their families of choice in their friends.

I love my community. I love always being able to come back and have a home.

Home, for me, is with the people who I really love - whether that's in England with my family, Ireland with my relatives, or Germany and Canada with my friends.

We are not, and never need be, alone.

... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.

The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

I love Vancouver. I can be with my family, I can reconnect with the guys. It will always be my home.

Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.

Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.

It feels great to be home, great to be back as a part of the community.

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

Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost.

Seattle has always been home.

London made my family and myself.

Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.

Family is anybody you sit down to a meal with - and very often, after college, your family is your friends or the people you work with.

In a lot of my films, the biggest theme is family, making families out of those around you.

Unlike many other illnesses, what I find profoundly empowering about addressing loneliness is that the ultimate solution to loneliness lies in each of us. We can be the medicine that each other needs. We can be the solution other people crave. We are all doctors and we are all healers.