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

“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

“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

“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

“Are you alone out here? What are you doing so deep in the jungle? Don't you know what you are?... I know what you are. I know where you came from. Poor, sweet little cub. I'll keep you clossse. Let go of your fear now... and trussst in meee...”

Scarlett Johansson - Kaa

“Have you always been alone? Did you ever have someone? Do you know what happened to you, do you? Because I don't. I don't know what happened to me. I don't know! I look in the mirror and the only thing I recognize, are these eyes. In this old man's face. You know sometimes I think I was either born too early or too late for my life. Maybe we're...” (continue)(continue reading)

Richard Jenkins - Giles

“- Harry Hart: When I was shot, can you guess what the last thing was that flashed through my mind? It was absolutely nothing. I had no ties. No bittersweet memories. I was leaving nothing behind. Never experienced companionship, never been in love. And in that moment, all I felt was loneliness and regret.
- Eggsy: I'm sorry.
- Harry Hart: Don't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Colin Firth - Harry Hart
Taron Egerton - Eggsy

“You just begin. You do the math. You solve one problem... and you solve the next one... and then the next. And If you solve enough problems, you get to come home. All right, questions?”
Matt Damon - Mark Watnay

“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

“I had the worst thought: I've got to spend the rest of my life with myself.”
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine

“You get a house with a 25 year roof, an indestructible Jap-economy shitbox, you put the rest into the system at three to five percent to pay your taxes and that's your base, get me? That's your fortress of fucking solitude.”
John Goodman - Frank

“- Sherlock Holmes: I have been alone. All my life. But with the compensations of the intellect.
- Ann Kelmot: And is that enough?
- Sherlock Holmes: It can be. If one is so fortunate as to find a place in the world.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes
Hattie Morahan - Ann Kelmot

“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

“Loneliness is a terrible price to pay for independence. Sybylla, don't throw away reality for some impossible dream.”
Patricia Kennedy - Aunt Gussie

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

“- Iris: How long have you been a lonely guy?
- Larry: Is it that noticeable? What is it that gave me away?
- Iris: I know phony sweat when I smell it. When you first came in, I thought you were Larry Bird.”

Judith Ivey - Iris
Steve Martin - Larry

“- 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

“Why was I not made of stone - like thee?”

Charles Laughton - The Hunchback Quasimodo

“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

“Two people can be perfect for each other but if the timing is wrong it's never going to work out. Bad timing is the reason that most normal people end up single. Weirdos and creeps are single cause they are weird and creepy but people like us are single because of bad timing.”
Jon Favreau - Adam Levy