Being Alone Better Quotes

#1. it wasn't that the forty-eight-year-old doctor didn't like people; he simply liked being alone better.

James Patterson

#2. LEXI: I'd settled for this awful existence because I'd convinced myself it was better than being alone.

...But it's not.

T.S. Joyce

#3. I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings.

Charles Bukowski

#4. But if we make it through this together, we'll be stronger. If we make it through this alone, we'll just be better at being alone.

Priscilla West

#5. She was so much better at being alone; being alone came more naturally to her. She led a life of deliberate solitude, and if occasional loneliness crept in, she knew how to work her way out of that particular divot. Or even better, how to sink in and absorb its particular comforts.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

#6. Don't you ever just have those days where even if you don't really like someone, you might as well hang out with them because right then, it's better than being alone?

Brenna Yovanoff

#7. Being alone is better than being your whore.

Lori Jenessa Nelson

#8. But that was something, wasn't it? It was good to be needed. It was better than being alone. It even felt good to be used. Being used brought you deep inside the machinery of the world.

Christopher Bram

#9. I think the hardest part of being a teenage, or any age really, is the misconception that you're alone. You're not alone. You're not the only one going through what you're going through, and life does get better if you want it to.

Ellie Elisabeth

#10. I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

Oren Peli

#11. After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

Nancy Grace

#12. It's better to be alone and keep your dignity than to be in a relationship where you always sacrifice your self respect.

Auliq Ice

#13. It is better to wake up alone, knowing you are alone, than to wake up with someone, still being lonely.

Liv Ullmann

#14. Things do not get better by being left alone.

Winston Churchill

#15. I've come to learn that being alone is better than being next to someone and feeling alone.

Steve Maraboli

#16. Four days ago, I realized that being alone was better than having his sorry ass company making me miserable every fucking day. Four days ago, I realized that being alone was better than living every day lonely with him.

Jessica N. Watkins

#17. Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

Tom Kristensen

#18. It is better to be alone then to be in a relationship, while you are trying to figure out what love means to you.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. Being with him feels like a better version of being alone.

Emily Henry

#20. Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

Richard Linklater

#21. It's nice to be able to control my smell environment, and I can hear myself think better when it's quiet. It wasn't easy to become a person who's OK being alone on a Saturday night, but I did the work, I got there...

Jonathan Franzen

#22. Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.

Pattie Boyd

#23. Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely. - Celine

Richard Linklater

#24. I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

Charles Bukowski

#25. When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comfortable. Then I searched through Sacred Scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up and it's much better now.

Pope John XXIII

#26. I do want someone, need someone. You're right. And, when I'm with you, I feel like I'm a better person. I feel happier. Less alone, less lonely. But it's not as simple as that, is it? Being with someone?

Naomi Campbell

#27. We all have our moments of being fed up ... but give me your hand and I'll hold it. If you are being bullied I am thinking of you. You are not alone and it will get better. Don't let them win. It's okay not to be okay.

Jessie J.

#28. To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.

Umar

#29. Being a lone wolf is sometimes better than being in a pack.

PureDragonWolf

#30. The only way to describe my involvement in 'Planes' is that it's an absolute dream come true for me. Getting to be a bad guy in any project is fun, let alone being a Disney villain. I can't imagine anything getting better than that!

Roger Craig Smith

#31. I felt a lot better; not being alone in being alone.

K.R. Albers

#32. I don't love Beau yet, I don't think. But being with him feels like a better version of being alone, and in that way, I think we are each other's.

Emily Henry

#33. Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation.

Bryant McGill

#34. I like being alone. I have control over my own shit. Therefore, in order to win me over, your presence has to feel better than my solitude. You're not competing with another person, you are competing with my comfort zones.

Horacio Jones

#35. Some one has defined a work of art as a "thing beautifully done." I like it better if we cut away the adverb and preserve the word "done," and let it stand alone in its fullest meaning. Things are not done beautifully. The beauty is an integral part of their being done.

Robert Henri

#36. Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.

Gia Coppola

#37. People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.

Henri Nouwen

#38. The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

Lilith Saintcrow

#39. I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself.

Lauren Myracle

#40. Maybe she'll fight better this way. Nothing motivates you like being alone and cornered on the streets.

Marie Lu

#41. Women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities ... How long a time it took me after my divorce to understand that being alone is not the same as being lonely.

Alice Steinbach

#42. My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

Claude Monet

#43. And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

John Irving

#44. It's bad, being frozen, but it's better than waking up alone.

Beth Revis