“In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.”
Solitude quotes
404 solitude quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines-
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“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.”
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“Writing is an antidote for loneliness.”
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“- 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.”
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“Christopher? Do you have guests? No, of course not. That'd mean you have friends.”
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“- 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.”
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“You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone.”
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“I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.”
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“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.”
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“If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.”
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“A man alone on a boat is more alone than any man alive.”
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“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.”
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“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)
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“The world's full of lonely people afraid to make the first move.”
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“- 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.”
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“- James: You're alone... because you're faster than the others. But not stronger...
- Edward Cullen: I'm strong enough to kill you.”
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“Trust me, you can, uh, understand communication and still end up single.”
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“- Real Toby: So, how do you cope with loneliness?
- Real Harvey: Did I say I watch television?”
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