Solitude quotes

“- Daniel Miller: You were born alone, you should celebrate it - celebrate aloneness. That's what birthdays are for.
- Jeep Owner: Gee, I never thought of it like that.
- Daniel Miller: It's a pitiful theory.”
Albert Brooks - Daniel Miller
James Eckhouse - Jeep Owner

You don't have what they call "the social skills". That's why you never have any friends, 'cept fo' yo' mama.
Kathy Bates - Helen 'Mama' Boucher

“Alone, lying, thinking last night, how to find my soul a home, where water is not thirsty, and bread loaf is not stone. I came up with one thing, and I don't believe I'm wrong, that nobody but nobody can make it out here alone.”
Janet Jackson - Justice

“- 3rd Victim: I get lonely sometimes.
- Julia: Everybody does.”

Michael Cassidy - 3rd Victim
Clare Higgins - Julia

“Once people got use to staying away, they always stayed away. I never got close to anybody.”
Christian Slater - Adam

“Don't forget who we are, and who you'll be if I'm gone. You could have a hundred women down here, but without me, you'd still be alone.”

Tony Goldwyn - Dr. William "Will" Rudolph

“Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.”

Paulette Goddard - Hannah

“- Gallagher: It's nice just to know you are still up there.
- Commander Kate Bowman: Yeah well, I don't mind dying, I just hate being alone so get your asses back here.”
Val Kilmer - Gallagher
Carrie-Anne Moss - Bowman

“I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech.”
Orson Bean - Dr. Lester

“One day I believe that you're going to wake up and realize you no longer have a brother. And you no longer have any friends.”

James Caan - Mr. Henry

“It's an odd feeling, farewell. There is such envy in it. Men go off to be tested, for courage. And if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.”
Meryl Streep - Karen

“- Dr. Lilian Thurman: Do you feel alone right now?
- Donnie Darko: I don't know. I'd like to believe I'm not, but I've just never seen any proof, so I just don't debate it anymore. It's like I could spend my whole life debating it over and over again, weighing the pros and cons. And in the end, I still wouldn't have any proof. So I just don't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Katharine Ross - Dr. Lilian Thurman
Jake Gyllenhaal - Donnie Darko

“I work alone, like you. We always work alone.”

Clive Owen - The Professor

“A great many mistakes are made in the name of loneliness.”
William M. Holden - Mark Elliott

“- Aziz: You shouldn't walk alone, Mrs. Moore. There are bad characters about, and leopards may come down from the Marabar Hills - snakes also!
- Mrs. Moore: You walk alone.
- Aziz: I am used to it.
- Mrs. Moore: Used to snakes?
- Aziz: I'm a doctor - they dare not bite me!”
Victor Banerjee - Aziz
Peggy Ashcroft - Mrs. Moore

“I've always been able to do this, break up with someone and never look back. Being alone: there's a certain dignity to it.”
Bridget Fonda - Janet Livermore

“- Paula Olsen: What is it with you and Nell?
- Jerome Lovell: It's like... there's no one else in the world. Like she doesn't need anybody. Can you live your whole life that way, or does it drive you crazy in the end?”
Natasha Richardson - Paula Olsen
Liam Neeson - Jerome Lovell

“Marianne, please try... I cannot... I cannot do without you. Oh, please, I have tried to bear everything else... I will try... Please, dearest, beloved Marianne, do not leave me alone.”
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood

“- Jack Edwards: Are you gonna help me in this, or are you gonna leave me stranded out here in this argument by myself?
- Thomas Harriman: I'm gonna leave you stranded.”
Sam Waterston - Jack Edwards
John Heard - Thomas Harriman

“I know what it is to feel lonely and helpless and to have the whole world against me, and those are things that no men or women ought to feel.”
Robert Donat - Hannay

“The cabin was just home. Just me, my father. And he died, and it was just me.”
Richard Harris - Martin Steckert

“Every living creature on Earth dies alone.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Donnie Darko

“It's funny how you get used to certain things in life. You get used to being overweight. I know I did. You even get used to people making fun of you. Somewhere along the line, I got used to being alone. And I just don't want to be alone anymore.”
Eddie Murphy - Sherman Klump

“- Stokely: You know, you were right about me. I don't have any friends and I like it that way. Being lesbian is just my security.
- Marybeth: Security against what?
- Stokely: People like you.”
Clea DuVall - Stokely 'Stokes' Mitchell
Laura Harris - Marybeth Louise Hutchinson

“Gurgi not let his friend die. Taran has many friends. Gurgi has no friends.”

John Byner - Gurgi