Solitude quotes

“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

“- 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

“Let's take what we have while we live. I have never had so much as now. All my life I've been alone. Many times I've faced my death with no one to know. I would look into the huts and the tents of others in the coldest dark and I would see figures holding each other in the night. And I always passed by. You and I, we have warmth. That's so hard...” (continue)(continue reading)

Sandahl Bergman - Valeria

“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

“There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.”
Maggie Smith

“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

“What have I got? Really? Some money in my pocket. Some nice threads, fancy car at my disposal, and I'm single. Yeah... unattached, free as a bird... I don't depend on nobody. Nobody depends on me. My life's my own.”
Jude Law - Alfie

“- 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

“- James Bond: I'm alone.
- Alec Trevelyan: Aren't we all?”
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond
Sean Bean - Alec Trevelyan

“It's lonely at the top, when there's no one on the bottom.”
Rodney Dangerfield - Wally Sparks

“See the stars? So cold, so far, and so very lonely. Oh, so lonely. All that space... just... empty space. And so far from home. I've circled round and round this house, orbit after orbit. Sometimes I wonder what it'd be like never to stop, and circle alone up there forever. And what if I got there - got to the moon - and couldn't get back? Sure,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Scott Wilson - Capt. Billy Cutshaw

“You will be put away into a place where not even the crows can land their droppings on you!”
Pam Ferris - Trunchbull

“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

“- C.C. Baxter: It's a wonderful thing, dinner for two.
- Fran Kubelik: Do you usually eat alone?
- C.C. Baxter: Oh no. Sometimes I have dinner with Ed Sullivan. Sometimes Dinah Shore, or Perry Como. The other night I had dinner with Mae West. Of course she was much younger then.”
Jack Lemmon - C.C. Baxter
Shirley MacLaine - Fran Kubelik

“- Margie MacDougall: Night like this, it sorta spooks you, walking into an empty apartment.
- C.C. Baxter: I said I had no family. I didn't say I had an empty apartment.”
Hope Holiday - Mrs. Margie MacDougall
Jack Lemmon - C.C. Baxter

“If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.”
Thelma Ritter - Alma

“Last year I made 125 million dollars. I don't even know what to do with my money anymore. I have nobody to spend it with, nobody to enjoy my life with anymore. It's horrible!”
Wayne Diamond - High Roller