In social networks and on resources with quotes, you can often find the words of supposedly Robin Williams about the “worst thing in life” and death alone. We checked whether this is his phrase.

A quote goes on the network for several years, and tracking its earliest appearance with the mention of the authorship of Williams is problematic. This is partly due to the fact that often the phrase is simply imposed on a photograph of the actor.

In English, the quote usually sounds something like this: “I used to Think The Worst Thing In Life Was to End Up All Alone. It’s not. The Worst Thing In Life Is Ending Up with Pekle Who Make You Feel All Alone. ” And translated into Russian: “I used to think that the worst thing in life is to die alone. This is wrong. The worst of all is to finish life surrounded by people with whom you feel lonely. ”

Due to the liberties of the translation exists many versions this phrases. On VKontakte posts with this quote Collected Thousands of likes, she Found and in Facebook, and c Twitter. And if you google these words, then the search engine will give out the mountain sites With quotes - Authority everywhere attributed Williams.

And Williams is really connected with this phrase, but is not its author. Words are taken from a feature film "The best dad" (World's Greatest DAD) 2009 with Williams in the title role. There he played Lance - a school teacher who dreams of becoming a famous writer. After the death of his son under unusual circumstances, Lance's life changed greatly, which became the plot of the plot. The author of the script and the director of the picture was Bobquat Goldtaite.

If interesting, in the original, the words performed by Williams can be heard at 1:40 in the video below.

As a result, an entertaining situation developed: these words were really pronounced by Robin Williams, but it cannot be said that this is his phrase. Similarly, Marlon Brando cannot be called the author of the famous phrase “I am going to make him an offer that he cannot refuse” or Anthony Hopkins - the author of the phrase “I ate his liver with beans and good Chianti”.

Image: Shot from the movie "Healer Adams" (1998)