Solitude quotes

“I wish I really could die. Go someplace by myself and die alone - like an elephant!”
Carole Lombard - Hazel Flagg

“When I was young and successful, I was greedy and foolish, and now I'm left with no one. Wrinkled and alone.”
Bill Nighy - Billy Mack

“You see an attractive woman, living on her own, you wonder: is she a roaring lesbian? Answer, no! For your information, I've been married and divorced three times. Once to an actor, once to an English lord and once to a Californian.”
Rut Bernardi - Evie

“Am I dead? I must be dead because no one's talking to me!”
Jeff Daniels - Lewis

“You know all your friends from the force? You don't have them anymore.”

Laurie Metcalf - Amy Wallace

“There's a certain shabby nobility in failing all by myself.”
Michael J. Fox - Jamie

“Always giving parties to cover the silence.”
Ed Harris - Richard Brown

“- Skip Donahue: I wonder what triggered all that violence? He seems so gentle. I see what it is. Nobody has ever just sat down and honestly talked to that man. Poor kid.
- Rory: I wouldn't sit with him. And I killed my step daddy.”

Gene Wilder - Skip Donahue
Georg Stanford Brown - Rory Schultebrand

“- Peg Boggs: My, those are your hands? Those are your hands! What happened to you? Where are your parents? Um... Your mother? Your father?
- Edward: He didn't wake up.
- Peg Boggs: Are you alone? Do you live up here all by yourself? What happened to your face? No, I won't hurt you. But at the very least, let me give you a good astringent. And...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dianne Wiest - Peg
Johnny Depp - Edward Scissorhands

“Family? Family? Friends? Drugged-up wandering suicidal search of the self fuck-ups don't have families.”
Ewan McGregor - Alex Law

“- Max Schreck: It made me sad.
- Albin Grau: Why sad?
- Max Schreck: Because Dracula had no servants.”

Willem Dafoe - Max Schreck
Udo Kier - Albin Grau

Amélie still seeks solitude. She amuses herself with silly questions about the world below, such as "How many people are having an orgasm right now?”.
André Dussollier - Narrator

“First, my friends are too busy to hang out with me... And now, I'm too busy to hang out with me.”
Macaulay Culkin - Richie Rich

“When you are alone eternally, you live for the comfort of the senses: food, sex. I'd become very selective and it was getting harder for me to find food, even living in the city. My choosiness about food cost me my lover, and without him there is no sex.”
Anne Parillaud - Marie

“- Mrs. Boyle: Leaving him alone again, I see.
- Rachel: Sticking your sweet face in everybody's business again, I see.”
Annabelle Weenick - Mrs. Boyle
Ruby Dee - Rachel

“- Andie: It's me!
- Ben: I'm in the middle of a meeting. Can I call you back later?
- Andie: I miss you Benny boo boo... boo boo boo.”

Kate Hudson - Andie Anderson
Matthew McConaughey - Ben Barry

“- Deirdre Lefever: Look, you're turning forty tomorrow, you haven't acquired a single thing of real value in your life... and no, no, money doesn't count. You're virtually friendless, you barely talk to your family, and you've just lost the only woman in the world who's ever meant anything to you.
- Russ Duritz: Who, Amy? Oh, come on, she's...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jean Smart - Deirdre Lafever
Bruce Willis - Russ Duritz

“- The Detective: A friend of yours told me where to find you in the middle of the day.
- The Driver: I don't have any friends.
- The Detective: That's right. No friends. No steady job. No girlfriend. You live real cheap, you never ask any questions... boy, you got it down real tight. So tight that there's no room for anything else. And that's a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bruce Dern - The Detective
Ryan O'Neal - The Driver

“Despite the dozens of ravishing creatures begging to be part of his life, Swift had lived alone since his wife... was incinerated several years before, when the microwave went berserk during a thunderstorm.”

Tom Selleck - Phil Blackwood

“- Laura Mars: I can't understand... how it's possible... to live your whole life... without someone... and be doing more or less ok. And then suddenly you find them.
- John Neville: You recognize them.
- Laura Mars: You recognize them. And... you know without them...
- John Neville: It's terrifying.
- Laura Mars: Yes.
- John Neville: It's...” (continue)(continue reading)
Faye Dunaway - Laura Mars
Tommy Lee Jones - John Neville

“- Marion: I feel sorry for you Ken, because, in your way, you've been as lonely as I have.
- Ken: Have you been lonely?
- Marion: At least I've come to recognize it.”
Gena Rowlands - Marion
Sir Ian Holm - Ken

“You ought not to leave me alone on days like this. I can't even get drunk. The faster I drink, the faster things happen to sober me up.”
Annie Potts - Karla Jackson

“We were frightened of being left alone for the rest of our lives.”

John Cusack - Rob Gordon

“This isn't your home. It was our parents home! But I don't see you making any contributions. You've got no wife, no kids. You insult the only family you have. You keep this up and you'll die alone, like a dog, like a bum, like Van Gogh.”

Joan Cusack - Gail Dwyer

“There is nothing more mean and ugly in this world than to have a loving gift, a beautiful spirit, and a desire to give and share these things when there is no one to share them with.”
Joseph Paur - Ribaldi