Top 100 Alone Than Quotes
#1. Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
Paul Brunton
#2. I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.
Nora Roberts
#3. Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.
Garcelle Beauvais
#4. For one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realize.
H.P. Lovecraft
#5. We priests are in some ways a sad group of men. Born into the world to render service to mankind, there is no one more wretchedly alone than the priest who does not measure up to his task.
Shusaku Endo
#7. Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around, I'd rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.
Ben Harper
#8. Everybody dies alone. That's a fact. Some more alone than others.
Jonathan Tropper
#9. It seems the more I try to connect with the world, I am feeling more alone than I ever have felt before
Donald Glover
#10. To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much
Just remember two main rules for the beginning:
You better starve, than eat whatever
And better be alone, than with whoever.
Omar Khayyam
#11. most. If I could be alone, I would. Gratefully. I'd rather be alone than have to pretend I'm okay. But they won't give me that option. So I'll settle for being with someone who at least doesn't love me as much. I'm thankful for Margot. Not that I tell her this. Not that I tell her anything. I don't.
Katja Millay
#12. Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off
especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)
Sue Grafton
#13. I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.
Lucinda Williams
#14. It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.
Jennifer Grant
#15. Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#17. In 1982 President Ronald Reagan called for a war on drugs: by 1990 more men were in federal prisons on drug charges alone than had comprised the entire 1980 federal prison population for all crimes combined.
Laurie Garrett
#18. As a matter of fact, Ona spent more credits on the window shades alone than you will make in your entire lifetime and that's if you live to be 185."
"And that's meant to make me feel better?" I said.
"No, that is meant to inform you. I am your computer not your nanny.
John Zakour
#19. It's easier to show aggression than it is to feel insecure. It's easier to push people away and to live alone than to be emotionally exposed and vulnerable.
Debra Fileta
#20. I'd rather be completely alone than with a bunch of people aren't real.
Sarah Ockler
#21. I had finally learned that it was better to be alone than to be in a relationship that degraded my soul.
Chrissy Moon
#22. I ... think it much more supportable to be always alone, than never to be so.
Michel De Montaigne
#23. Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.
H.P. Lovecraft
#24. It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
Marilyn Monroe
#25. I guess I've found that I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person.
Kristan Higgins
#27. The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
Brendan Behan
#30. I had never been more alone than I was in my admiration for the real killer's work. The very body parts seemed to sing to me, a rhapsody of bloodless wonder that lightened my heart and filled my veins with an intoxicating sense of awe.
Dexter Morgan
#32. A breakup is like a broken mirror . It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it .
Linda Wisdom
#33. I would rather be alone than having a solitary company.
Pushpa Rana
#34. We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend; never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful.
Francois Fenelon
#35. Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company
Booker T. Washington
#36. When I was coming out of depression, I made one random video. It wasn't funny or anything, but just the idea that people I didn't know were watching it made me feel less alone than I'd felt in a long time.
Lilly Singh
#37. Suicide is kinda dumb to me. If I wanna kill myself I will. It's not hard to die, I could do it like right now. But why is everybody pretending like everything's ok, Everything's not ok. We are more connected than we've ever been, But I feel more alone than I've ever been.
Donald Glover
#38. If I could be alone, I would. Gratefully. I'd rather be alone than have to pretend I'm okay.
Katja Millay
#39. Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater ridicule. And no visit is more essential.
Marguerite Duras
#41. A woman without a man
a condition of 'manlessness'
is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
Barbara Kingsolver
#42. It is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else
Marilyn Monroe
#45. I'd rather love you and be alone than love you and be with her or anyone.
Beth Harbison
#46. It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.
Muhammad
#47. Nothing can be as peaceful and endless as a long winter darkness, going on and on, like living in a tunnel where the dark sometimes deepens into night and sometimes eases to twilight, you're screened from everything, protected, even more alone than usual.
Tove Jansson
#48. If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
Gautama Buddha
#49. If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?
Ayn Rand
#50. And suddenly we realize that the things we were ashamed of are the same things everyone deals with at one time or another. We are so much less alone than we think.
Jenny Lawson
#51. Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone ... than I ever have before.
Ben Folds
#52. It is better to live alone than to have a fool for a companion.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#54. It's almost easier being down and alone than when you re up and no one s there to share the view with you
Andre Dubus III
#55. I would rather live a life alone, than live a life built on lies, deceit and manipulation".
Linda Simpson
#56. It is better to wake up alone, knowing you are alone, than to wake up with someone, still being lonely.
Liv Ullmann
#57. Brainstorming sounds like a great idea, but it doesn't work. Dozens of studies have demonstrated this conclusively. People produce more good ideas - twice as many - alone than they do together. One problem with brainstorming is
Eric Weiner
#59. The soul is never less alone than when it is alone with God.
Samuel Chadwick
#60. She'd rather be alone than settle just because she was lonely, but sometimes - not that she'd admit it to another soul - that choice sucked.
Donna Alward
#61. A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.
Jonathan Swift
#62. More alone than she had ever been, separated from Heathcliff who had left her at Penistone Crag, Cathy had been wandering lost on the moor until at last she saw a light winking in the distance.
N J Dorrian
#64. I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.
Philip Schultz
#65. It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely
Liv Ullmann
#66. After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
Nancy Grace
#67. The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan.
Ronald Reagan
#68. It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was ...
Alice Hoffman
#71. I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.
Tim McGraw
#72. Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
Jonathan Swift
#75. Amelia the bright-sider believes it is better to be alone than to be with someone who doesn't share your sensibilities and interests.
Gabrielle Zevin
#76. I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.
R.A. Torrey
#77. It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve
Mark Twain
#78. Sometimes it's better to fly alone than in a flock and go unnoticed.
Christy Johnson
#79. A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were much more alone than you thought you were, a view that inspired the flickering thoughts of suicide.
Bret Easton Ellis
#80. We sold more iPads in the last quarter alone than any PC manufacturer sold in their entire line.
Tim Cook
#81. I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.
Joseph Barbera
#82. I just think that sometimes it is less hard to wake up feeling lonely when you are alone than to wake up feeling lonely when you are with someone else. Some people would be better off alone, but they feel they've got to get hold of someone to prove they're worthwhile.
Liv Ullmann
#83. And then you realize one day that you can't remember her scent and nothing smells like her anymore. You can't remember how she feels or the sound of her voice. You haven't thought of her every second of every day. Then--then you feel more alone than on the day you lost her.
Desiree Banks
#84. And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.
Anita Loos
#85. Which meant he was alone here. Even more alone than he'd realized. He took a deep breath. He wasn't alone. The Force was with him.
Timothy Zahn
#86. I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet.
Cynthia Nixon
#87. Maybe I was more alone than anyone in the whole wide world. Maybe that was okay.
Cheryl Strayed
#88. I would rather die a spinster - poor, ruined, scorned, and alone - than suffer that heartbreak daily.
Tessa Dare
#89. I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
Scipio Africanus
#90. Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit
Andy Hargreaves
#91. Hester, recently married herself, and knowing the depth and the sweep of love, ached for Callandra that she sacrificed so much. And yet loving her husband as she did, for all his faults and vulnerabilities, Hester, too, would rather have been alone than accept anyone else.
Anne Perry
#92. It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
Phil McGraw
#93. Exxon Mobil and JPMorgan Chase each made more in profits in the first quarter of 2012 alone than the entire state budget of Montana. Without a doubt, multinational corporations like these have the resources to overwhelm the voices of the people.
Eric Schneiderman
#94. it is better to be alone than to be betrayed persistently and dumped . keeping yourself dumped in a room 8x10 is better than hanging out with hypocrites .
Vishal Mishra
#95. I just don't want to have more people to lose. It sounds mental, but I'd rather be alone than be devastated when things don't work out and he leaves. Or something horrible happens and I lose him entirely.
H.M. Ward
#96. There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.
Claire North
#97. It's easier to die when you have lived, than it is to die when you haven't. So I say to all young people, go make memories; beautiful memories. Because when the time comes to go, you won't go alone.
Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
#98. No matter how much you want to be self-sufficient and alone, there is a natural human impulse to need something more than that.
Jonathan E. Steinberg
#99. People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
Paula Hawkins
#100. If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.
Hakim Ibn Hizam
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