Solitude quotes

“Is a flower in the hair too much for solo dining? I need to get out and take my new knees for a spin.”
Paula Pell - Val

“I thought, by living alone away from the world, I could find peace. Then I found there is no real peace in being alone. There is only loneliness.”
Sophia Loren - Lucilla

“The most comfortable prison is still a lonely place.”
Richard Eyer - The Genie

“If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.”
Thandie Newton

“A man alone on a boat is more alone than any man alive.”
Simon McBurney - Sir Francis Chichester

“Myself, I suffer from loneliness. And I think we all feel alone. I'm looking for stories that help people deal with loneliness and help them if they are monsters: they don't have to undertake monstrous actions. And maybe they're not monsters.”
David Harbour

“I've spent all my life alone, in a room. I need to go out and work to forget myself. I want to be out of control. I need to be in a feverish state. It's called the act of painting for a reason.”
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh

“- Alma: Why are you not married?
- Reynolds Woodcock: I make dresses.
- Alma: You cannot be married when you make dresses?
- Reynolds Woodcock: I'm certain I was never meant to marry. I'm a confirmed bachelor. I'm incurable.”
Vicky Krieps - Alma
Daniel Day-Lewis - Reynolds Woodcock

“- James: You're alone... because you're faster than the others. But not stronger...
- Edward Cullen: I'm strong enough to kill you.”
Cam Gigandet - James
Robert Pattinson - Edward Cullen

“I want to come to the States. I want to live the American Dream for a while. And get a Pontiac. And I want the Levi's jeans, acid wash, super taper. Like John Stamos. I want a wife, Don. I'm lonely here. She has to be gentle and sweet and hot like stripper.”
Jemaine Clement - Boaz

“Trust me, you can, uh, understand communication and still end up single.”

Amy Adams - Louise Banks

“I worry, Frank, that you have no life to get on with. You're a good man, and good men like you and me are destined to walk a lonely road. Goodbye, and good luck.”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary

“The trouble with sports cars, there's no room for anybody else maybe one other person max. But if you want to take a real road trip luggage and all, you don’t even have room for a friend. I mean there cool and fast and all, but who wants to be in a nice car when you're alone all.”

Mike Weinberg - Kevin McCallister

“- Real Toby: So, how do you cope with loneliness?
- Real Harvey: Did I say I watch television?”
Toby Radloff - Real Toby
Harvey Pekar - Real Harvey

“I was used to being by myself, but I have never felt more alone.”

Emma Stone - Olive

“I was a fugitive, afraid of getting caught. I kept imagining Jenkins leaping out at me from every dark corner. As a child, I would dream about being invisible. I thought it would be so easy. I could do what I want, go where I want and take what I want. But that's the catch. No matter how hungry I was, I couldn't give myself away.”
Chevy Chase - Nick Halloway

“- Carol Aird: Harge and I never spend New Year's Eve together. There's always a business function, always clients to entertain.
- Therese Belivet: I've always spent it alone. In crowds.”
Cate Blanchett - Carol Aird
Rooney Mara - Therese Belivet

“- Billy: How long have you been waiting?
- Alpha 5: What's today? Monday?
- Billy: Yeah.
- Alpha 5: Then, 65 million years. I've been very lonely.”
RJ Cyler - Billy (Blue Ranger)
Bill Hader - Alpha 5

“I don't live alone, I have the housekeeper!”

Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“You're not so weird. You're just another lonely man with many regrets.”
Malin Akerman - Constance Sack

- Justin McLeod: I like privacy.
- Charles E. "Chuck" Norstadt: Well, what about living alone? Do you like that?
- Justin McLeod: It likes me.
Mel Gibson - Justin McLeod
Nick Stahl - Charles E. "Chuck" Norstadt

“Do not disturb.”

Constance Bennett

“In your unhappiness you reached out your hand for help and in my loneliness I took it.”

Bette Davis - Henriette Deluzy-Desportes

“- Grace: Guess you heard about the boy.
- Meacham: I did. You know, word travels fast in this town. How long has he been out there?
- Grace: Six years.
- Meacham: Six years? Nobody can survive in that forest for six years. At least not alone.
- Grace: Well... He says... He says he wasn't alone.”
Bryce Dallas Howard - Grace
Robert Redford - Meacham

“To be with someone, when you're not really with him can... it's... I think I might be less lonely... alone.”
Meryl Streep - Kay