Solitude quotes

“- Jim Hutton: All your friends have left you alone.
- Freddie Mercury: They're not my friends. Not really. Just distraction.
- Jim Hutton: From what?
- Freddie Mercury: The in-between moments, I suppose. I find them intolerable. All of the darkness you thought you left behind comes creeping back in.”
Aaron McCusker - Jim Hutton
Rami Malek - Freddie Mercury

“When you're a kid, you think that you'll always be... protected, and cared for. Then, one day, you realize that's not true. If you open your eyes, you will see what we're going through. 'Cause when you're alone as a kid, the monsters see you as weaker. You don't even know they're getting closer. Until it's too late.”
Wyatt Oleff - Stanley Uris

“In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.”
David Spade

“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.”
Yul Brynner

“Writing is an antidote for loneliness.”
Steven Berkoff

“It was that night I discovered that most things you consider evil or wicked are simply lonely, and lacking in the social niceties.”
Ewan Gordon McGregor - Ed Bloom - Young

“- Joan Winfield: Don't you get lonesome being here all alone?
- Pop Tolliver: No, I like people. Not seeing many of them keeps me liking them.”
Bette Davis - Joan Winfield
Harry Davenport - Pop Tolliver

“Christopher? Do you have guests? No, of course not. That'd mean you have friends.”
Erika Christensen - Madison Bell

“- Pacha: Someday, you're gonna wind up all alone, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself.
- Kuzko: Thanks for that. I'll log that away.”
John Goodman - Patcha
David Spade - Kuzco

“I think you are just an evil, bitter, old, alcoholic sex fiend who needs a lifetime of therapy herself!”
Leslie Jordan - Earl 'Brother Boy' Ingram

“You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone.”
Anthony Minghella

“I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.”
Michael Patrick King

“Is a flower in the hair too much for solo dining? I need to get out and take my new knees for a spin.”
Paula Pell - Val

“I thought, by living alone away from the world, I could find peace. Then I found there is no real peace in being alone. There is only loneliness.”
Sophia Loren - Lucilla

“The most comfortable prison is still a lonely place.”
Richard Eyer - The Genie

“If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.”
Thandie Newton

“A man alone on a boat is more alone than any man alive.”
Simon McBurney - Sir Francis Chichester

“Myself, I suffer from loneliness. And I think we all feel alone. I'm looking for stories that help people deal with loneliness and help them if they are monsters: they don't have to undertake monstrous actions. And maybe they're not monsters.”
David Harbour

“Those who came before have passed on. And I'm left behind. A penniless beggar. Not a cowrie to my name. Look, my purse is empty... Lord, the day is done and evening falls. Ferry me across to the other shore...”

Chunibala Devi - Indir Thakrun

“I live in a castle, Tony! Alone. And rich white people pay me to play piano for them because it makes them feel cultured. But as soon as I step off that stage, I go right back to being just another nigger to them. Because that is their true culture. And I suffer that slight alone, because I'm not accepted by my own people 'cause I'm not like...” (continue) (continue reading)
Mahershala Ali - Dr. Donald Shirley

“The world's full of lonely people afraid to make the first move.”
Viggo Mortensen - Tony Lip

“I've spent all my life alone, in a room. I need to go out and work to forget myself. I want to be out of control. I need to be in a feverish state. It's called the act of painting for a reason.”
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh

“- Alma: Why are you not married?
- Reynolds Woodcock: I make dresses.
- Alma: You cannot be married when you make dresses?
- Reynolds Woodcock: I'm certain I was never meant to marry. I'm a confirmed bachelor. I'm incurable.”
Vicky Krieps - Alma
Daniel Day-Lewis - Reynolds Woodcock

“- James: You're alone... because you're faster than the others. But not stronger...
- Edward Cullen: I'm strong enough to kill you.”
Cam Gigandet - James
Robert Pattinson - Edward Cullen

“I want to come to the States. I want to live the American Dream for a while. And get a Pontiac. And I want the Levi's jeans, acid wash, super taper. Like John Stamos. I want a wife, Don. I'm lonely here. She has to be gentle and sweet and hot like stripper.”
Jemaine Clement - Boaz