Quotes tagged ‘Solipsism’

“You're a strange person, Robert. I mean, what will you come to? If a person has no love for himself, no respect for himself, no love of his friends, family, work, something—how can he ask for love in return? I mean, why should he ask for it?”

— Carole Eastman, Bob Rafelson, Catherine Van Oost, Susan Anspach, imdb.com

“In today's polarized political environment, I'm often asked how I think America can come back together. My answer is pretty simple: we learn to leave each other alone.”

— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com

“I tell you Max, I don't know why I ever leave this place. I've got all the company I need right here.”

— Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, The Grinch, Jim Carrey, imdb.com

“I want to be alone.”

— Vicki Baum, Grusinskaya, Greta Garbo, imdb.com

“I just want to live in a glass box alone. That's all I want.”

— Andrew Stanton, Victoria Strouse, Bob Peterson, Hank (voice), Ed O'Neill, imdb.com

“All of man's troubles come from his inability to sit quietly in a room, by himself.”

— Howard Korder, Arnold Rothstein, Michael Stuhlbarg, imdb.com

“Sometimes being stuck in my own head is so exhausting that it makes me want to cry.”

— Dan Sterling, Lena Dunham, Marnie Michaels, Allison Williams, imdb.com

“You sit in such judgment of the world. How do you expect to ever be a part of it?”

— Rick Cleveland, Olivier Castro-Staal, Alan Ball, imdb.com

“Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

“Our humanity is contingent on the humanity of our fellows. No person or group can be human alone. We rise above the animal together, or not at all. If we learned that lesson even this late in the day, we would have taken a truly millennial step forward.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“The strong man is strongest when alone.”

— Friedrich Schiller, amazon.com

“The less I know about other people’s affairs, the happier I am. I’m not interested in caring about people. I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes.”

— Norm Hiscock, Ron Swanson, Nick Offerman, imdb.com

“Teenagers only have to focus on themselves—it’s not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.”

— Jennifer Lawrence, huffingtonpost.com

“One of my favorite parts of hunting is getting away from it all. These days there’s a lot more to get away from. That’s probably why I cherish it so much.”

— Chris Pratt, outdoorlife.com

“I have such a good life. I may be worried about, you know, are my feet dry? Should I put some more cream on my legs? This is, like, my big problem. So, yeah, I am self-centered. It's like, 'Here I am!' Me, me, me, me, me, basically—bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. I was coming down the street the other…”

— Danny DeVito, rollingstone.com

“The only sound I hear, the only sound in the entire world...is my heart beating.”

— Daniel Cerone, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com

“Lolita turned to Eva, and so very serenely and seriously, in answer to something the other had said about its being better to die than hear Milton Pinski, some local schoolboy she knew, talk about music, my Lolita remarked: ‘You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your…”

— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com