Solitude quotes

“- Will: Every man is an island. I stand by that. But clearly some men are island CHAINS. Underneath, they are connected...
- Marcus: I used to think two was not enough. But now things are great; there are loads of people...”
Hugh Grant - Will Freeman
Nicholas Hoult - Marcus Brewer

- Mrs. Beaumont: Are you married?
- Fiona: No.
- Mrs. Beaumont: Are you a lesbian?
- Fiona: Good lord! What makes you ask that?
- Mrs. Beaumont: Well, it is one of the possibilites for unmarried girls nowadays, and it's rather more interesting than saying, "Oh dear, never met the right chap", eh?
Rosalie Crutchley - Mrs. Beaumont - Wedding Two
Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Fiona - Wedding One

“I have a house, and family, and things like that... not like I'm complaining or anything, because I have a cat, I have an apartment, sole possession of the remote control. That's very important. It's just, I never met anyone I could laugh with.”
Sandra Bullock - Lucy

We both said "Hey, we've got a caring relationship, we're each willing to give the other the space to grow and nourish our basic aloneness. Why not make a total commitment, in a legalistic sense?". So tomorrow's the big day.
Sam Chew Jr. - Bill

“It's lonesome for a guy to be without a dog.”
Burgess Meredith - George Milton

“In your heart, in your soul, you are alone. That is why you separated your sexes, for that brief union.”

Louis Gossett Jr. - Drac

“- Christina: Do you have a lot of friends?
- Eric: Not really...
- Christina: Do you ever wish you did?
- Eric: Yeah.”
Mia Kirshner - Christina
Elias Koteas - Eric

“You're turning into a kind of serial monogamist. One girlfriend after another, yet you never really let anyone near you. On the contrary... You're affectionate to them and sweet to them. Even to me, although you thought I was an idiot.”

Anna Chancellor - Henrietta - Wedding Two

“Littlefoot knew for certain he was alone, and although the Great Valley was far away, the journey there was perillous. He would have to find his way, or the chain of life would be broken.”
Pat Hingle - Narrator

“I know what's in store for me. No one will ever have passion for me. People all around me will be falling in love, and making love, and getting married and having kids. The closest thing I'll ever have to that is someone inviting me to their Christmas dinner because they feel guilty I might be spending the holiday alone. Or if I'm lucky, my male...” (continue)(continue reading)
Marissa Ribisi - Dora

“Face it, King, you're worthless and weak and the chances of you getting a girlfriend without the aid of a virus which wiped out the entire male population of the planet are frankly pretty remote.”
Rowan Atkinson - Ron Anderson

“In my world, Casey, there were limitless oceans as far as the eye could see. Beautiful, huh? Till it started to dry out. So I escaped, came here, and I met you, all of you, and all of you were different from the others. You were lost and lonely, just like me.”
Laura Harris - Marybeth Louise Hutchinson

“It makes you feel alone, you know, hurtin' somebody?”
Tim Robbins - Dave Boyle

“You go back to your hotel and I'll go back to my glamorous life of being alone. The only thing I have to come home to is a bottle of mouthwash to get the taste of cum out of my mouth. I'm tired of being alone. That's what I'm tired of.”
Elisabeth Shue - Sera

- Chon Wang: There you are. Need anything?
- Roy O'Bannon: A whole lot of "leave me alone".
Jackie Chan - Chon Wang
Owen Wilson - Roy O'Bannon

“- Mufasa: Simba, let me tell you something my father told me. Look at the stars. The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars.
- Young Simba: Really?
- Mufasa: Yes. So whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you. And so will I.”
James Earl Jones - Mufasa
Jonathan Taylor Thomas - Young Simba

- Young prostitute: What have you got in mind?
- Martin Riggs (Lethal Weapon): Well, I want you to come home and watch television with me.
- Young prostitute: You serious?
- Martin Riggs (Lethal Weapon): Yeah. "The 3 Stooges" are on in 20 minutes.

Mel Gibson - Martin Riggs

“Solitude can be a good thing. Kind of like Prozac.”
Mikael Colville-Andersen - Oliver Mauro

“I don't have anybody anymore, my brother and sister got canned and they left town, and then my parents went and died on me.”
David Strathairn - Russell Terziak

“You feel cut off from the world, but the world has missed you.”

Catherine Zeta-Jones - Theo

“- Babs: Morning, Ginger. Back from holiday?
- Ginger: I wasn't on holiday, Babs. I was in solitary confinement.
- Babs: Oh. It's nice to get a bit of time to yourself, isn't it?”
Jane Horrocks - Babs
Julia Sawalha - Ginger

I asked for it. "To be heading into the inexorable... where no mother will care for us... no woman crosses our path... where only reality reigns... with cruelty and grandeur". I was drunk with those words. Well, this is reality.
Herbert Grönemeyer - Lt. Werner - Correspondent

“- Angel: What are we supposed to do now? I don't... I mean, I don't know anything.
- Randy: I don't know. I think I love you.
- Angel: You don't have to, you know.
- Randy: I know.
- Angel: God, I feel so lonesome.”
Kristy McNichol - Angel
Matt Dillon - Randy

“It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.”
Audrey Hepburn - Holly Golightly

“The thing about Harvard for somebody from the working class like us - we come from a working class background - is a terrible sense of isolation, of aloneness there.”
Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce