Top 100 Better Alone Than Quotes
#3. Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit
Andy Hargreaves
#4. They're sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone.
Billy Joel
#5. Because going through a hard life with someone else is better than going through an easy life alone.
Jesse Eisenberg
#6. One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.
Ben Chifley
#7. Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
Jonathan Swift
#8. Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.
John Steinbeck
#9. The horse responds to comfort, they respond to peace better than about anything else you could do. All he wants you to do is just leave him alone. So if the horse responds to you and you give him a little peace and comfort that means more to him than anything.
Buck Brannaman
#10. To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.
Umar
#11. Maybe it's better to end things this way. Better to have a tragic and sudden end than to have a long, drawn-out one where we realize that we're just too different, and that love alone is not enough to bind us. I think all these things. I believe none of them.
Nicola Yoon
#12. In a highly performing team everyone achieves better than he/she would have achieved when working alone.
Israelmore Ayivor
#13. You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own;
The final step you must take alone.
No wisdom is better than this when known:
That every hard thing is done alone.
Hermann Hesse
#14. I have always preferred to keep things to myself rather than sharing them with anyone, but I am learning that if you let it go, you feel better for it. Don't keep it all bottled up inside; don't take it all on alone.
Luis Suarez
#15. It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
Andrew Carnegie
#16. You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do ... and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.
Criss Jami
#17. Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.
Nora Roberts
#18. At our age, surely there are better things to sustain us, to sustain a marriage, than the brief flame of passion?" ... "You are mistaken, Ernest," she said at last. "There is only the passionate spark. Without it, two people living together may be lonelier than if they lived quite alone.
Helen Simonson
#19. Being a lone wolf is sometimes better than being in a pack.
PureDragonWolf
#20. Sometimes it's better to go against the crowd and feel alone,
than to agree and have a false sense of belonging
Steven Aitchison
#21. 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
#22. Come with me. It's so much better than coming alone.
(Lucan whispered to Lena)
Lynn Viehl
#23. Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.
Robin Williams
#24. 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
#25. I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.
Barbara Feldon
#26. It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.
Jennifer Grant
#27. The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.
Colson Whitehead
#28. It's the best part of the whole movie. John Malkovich with a pink pig is - you can't get better than that. Then John Malkovich alone and then you add a pink pig.
Mary-Louise Parker
#29. Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree. (Ellen Hopkins)
Ellen Hopkins
#31. ... it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.
Louisa May Alcott
#32. Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation.
Bryant McGill
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. I had finally learned that it was better to be alone than to be in a relationship that degraded my soul.
Chrissy Moon
#37. Nothing can calm our souls more or better prepare us for life's challenges than time spent alone with God.
Billy Graham
#38. Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog.
Sebastian Barry
#39. Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on which you are compelled to speak. On these occasions alone is speech better than silence; on all others, it is better to be silent than to speak.
Isocrates
#40. Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.
George Grey
#41. Two are better off than one, because together they can work more effectively. If one of them falls down, the other can help him up ... Two people can resist an attack that would defeat one person alone. A rope made of three cords is hard to break. Ecclesiastes 4:9 (TEV)
Rick Warren
#42. 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
#43. It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
Marilyn Monroe
#44. When you feel solitude is your only option, never be afraid to accept a gentle smile from a friend, and the warmth of another's hand in yours. Walking together is a better option, than walking alone....
Virginia Alison
#45. Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone will give our people from His Own Mouth! A good name is, indeed, better than gold.
Elijah Muhammad
#46. I once stood on a road and found I had no friends. And I was glad. Better to have no friends than to have people claim they were your friends when they were not. It is a source of strength to come to terms with your right to be alone.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#47. 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
#48. Once men sang together round a table in chorus; now one man sings alone, for the absurd reason that he can sing better. If our civilization goes on like this, only one man will laugh, because he can laugh better than the rest.
G.K. Chesterton
#49. Let us alone, little woman. We understand each other, don't we, doctor? Why, bless your life, he gives me better than he gets many a time; only, you see, he sugars it over, and says a sharp thing, and pretends it's all civility and humility; but I can tell when he's giving me a pill.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#50. 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
#51. The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart ... To go alone ... into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth
it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.
Thomas Wolfe
#53. Sometimes you can grow more in a shorter amount of time with the right company than years of soul-searching alone, or by living the same patterns you've lived for your entire life.
A.J. Darkholme
#54. It is better to have God over your shoulder, than carry the world alone on your back.
Anthony Liccione
#56. What a pull he has! What a magnetism! Women jump off balconies and follow him into wars. Women turn their eyes from an affair, because a marriage of three is better than a woman alone.
Naomi Wood
#57. A breakup is like a broken mirror . It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it .
Linda Wisdom
#58. Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company
Booker T. Washington
#59. I love to go see films, even on my own. I just walk to the nearest cinema. There's nothing better than watching a movie alone; you can just sit there and zone in.
Douglas Booth
#60. All who are genuinely committed to the advancement of women can and must offer a woman or a girl who is pregnant, frightened, and alone a better alternative than the destruction of her own unborn child
Mary Ann Glendon
#61. We can't impose our will on a system. We can listen to what the system tells us, and discover how its properties and our values can work together to bring forth something much better than could ever be produced by our will alone.
Donella H. Meadows
#62. It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks like that ... Magnus.
Cassandra Clare
#64. It is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else
Marilyn Monroe
#65. Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.
Evangeline Lilly
#67. But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!
Herman Melville
#68. To be a bear and love a she-bear, that would not be such a bad life, and would, at least, be a far better one than to keep his reason and his thoughts, with all the rest that made him human, and yet live on alone, unloved, in sadness.
Hermann Hesse
#69. It's better to stand alone and feel strong
than standing with people who make you feel weak
Steven Aitchison
#70. Better to go hungry than to be alone. Because when you're alone - and I'm talking here
about an enforced solitude not of our choosing - it's as if you were no longer part of the
human race
Paulo Coelho
#71. As for his hobby, drawing, he was better at that than most artists alive today and I always knew he was really a great young artist pretending to be withdrawn so people would leave him alone, also so people wouldn't ask him to get a job.
Jack Kerouac
#72. 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
#73. It's bad, being frozen, but it's better than waking up alone.
Beth Revis
#74. 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
#75. When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#76. You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success ... I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself.
Dan Jansen
#77. It is better to live alone than to have a fool for a companion.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#78. Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.
David Gemmell
#79. We were just two people headed in the same direction, and walking together was better than walking alone. Love should be more than that.
Bette Lee Crosby
#80. And the waitress is practicing politics
As the businessmen slowly get stoned
Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness
But its better than drinkin' alone
Billy Joel
#82. It is better to wake up alone, knowing you are alone, than to wake up with someone, still being lonely.
Liv Ullmann
#83. 24 It's better to live alone in the corner of an attic than with a quarrelsome wife in a lovely home.
Anonymous
#84. 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
#85. They're sharing a drink they call lonliness, but it's better than drinking alone.
Billy Joel
#87. Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!
Ole Hallesby
#88. I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.
Olafur Eliasson
#89. It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely
Liv Ullmann
#90. 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
#92. Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller
#93. 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
#94. Even if you choose someone who is not necessarily the love of your life, married life will be better than what you have now, with just your father and yourself. It is not good to sleep alone night after night.
J.M. Coetzee
#95. After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
Nancy Grace
#96. 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
#97. Leading change means bringing people with you to a better state than any of you could have envisaged alone.
A.J. Sheppard
#98. What is meant to be, will always find its way. And when your down and feeling alone, just wanna run away, trust yourself and don't give up. You know you better than anyone else.
Hilary Duff
#99. Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
Vincent Van Gogh
#100. Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.
Andrew Solomon
