Top 76 Born To Be Alone Quotes

#1. We're born alone, and we die alone.

Emery Lord

#2. Consciousness is a born hermit.

George Santayana

#3. 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

#4. Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.

Matthew Prior

#5. How can anyone be called human, if being born a human being and growing in a human society, he does not recognise human values? You must see that you don't harm any living being. He alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.

Sathya Sai Baba

#6. We were born alone, and we will die alone. But while we are on this planet, we must accept and glorify our act of faith through other people.

Paulo Coelho

#7. The world has become lovelier. I am alone, and I don't suffer from my loneliness. I don't want life to be anything other than what it is. I am ready to let myself be baked in the sun till I am done. I am eager to ripen. I am ready to die, ready to be born again. The world has become lovelier.

Hermann Hesse

#8. Non nobis solum nati sumus.
(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. The defining moment when we finally admit, "I can't do this alone. Its too much for me. Take it."
That's the moment our heart cracks open, our will pours out and Christ stands ready with his arms stretched wide and his smile even wider.
That's the moment a miracle is born.

Toni Sorenson

#10. In that one glimpse of a better nature, born as it was in selfish thoughts, the rich man felt himself friendless, childless, and alone.

Charles Dickens

#11. Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. You were born alone, even if you were born conjoined. And you die alone, unable to bring a single person with you.

Augusten Burroughs

#12. We're born alone and we die alone. So in between, let's spend time with people that make us feel good ... or at least put-out.

Dov Davidoff

#13. Hope never stands alone," he said in a dry, husky voice. "It is born of valor and perseverance. It rides the back of courage.

D. Barkley Briggs

#14. I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

Olga Kurylenko

#15. If blood alone is what defines us, no child born is born in freedom.

Nalini Singh

#16. We're born alone and we die alone. It's just a question of getting used to both of them.

Erlend Loe

#17. Born we are alone , we live in a crowd ----
But actually alone !!!!!

Ibrahim Masoodi

#18. Let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that ... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.

Muhammad Iqbal

#19. No one is born evil, just like no one is born alone. They become that way, through choice and circumstance.

Victoria Aveyard

#20. You are not alone in this world; you are the vine from a tree that connects all mankind. Long before you were born, God wrote greatness next to your name.

Janet Autherine

#21. I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.
-Myles of Olau

Tamora Pierce

#22. -That's kind of sad.
-I used to think so. Now I think: you're born a certain way. Later you get to decide how much you want to fight/change that. I don't mind being alone.
-You must mind. If you didn't you wouldn't be doing this with me.

Doug Dorst

#23. Life was the gift that you were given the day you were born, and in turn you are the gift to life. Only in the moments of being alone in the darkness on the raft, will you have the space to speak, listen, and to act from the heart.

Forrest Curran

#24. He was born to be alone, a damned cold intellectual, an egoist.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#25. Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Mary Baker Eddy

#26. If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

Fernando Pessoa

#27. We aren't born for ourselves alone. You have to take care of other people.

Kass Morgan

#28. Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

Muhammad Iqbal

#29. To be human is not simply to find a life alone with God, but to be born in relationship with others.

Craig Rennebohm

#30. Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne

Nas

#31. We're born alone and we die alone, but we get to travel with people along the way, and if you get lucky, you have a worthy consort.

Emma Forrest

#32. You might be alone at the moment ... But someday ... You'll definitely find nakama! No one is born in this world to be alone!

Eiichiro Oda

#33. For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#34. Nothing matters except what it takes to survive. You remember this, Madeline: You're born alone and you die alone. In between, you make deals.

Jennifer Crusie

#35. The country she had taken for granted as her own, where she had been born, whose language alone she spoke, had rejected her and despised her.

Pearl S. Buck

#36. Among the Spartans all newly born children were subject to a careful examination or selection. All those that were weak, sickly, or affected with any bodily infirmity, were killed. Only the perfectly healthy and strong children were allowed to live, and they alone afterwards propagated the race.

Ernst Haeckel

#37. It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

Pliny The Elder

#38. Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Samuel Johnson

#39. Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow. Yet if we live in terror of it, then we do not live at all. Yes we are born alone, and yes we will die alone. But in between, Tae, we live. We know joy.

David Gemmell

#40. We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

Yul Brynner

#41. Fact: you can never know another person completely.
Fact: you are born alone and die alone.
Fact: there is no such thing as safety. Only vigilance, determination to survive, and a willingness to be ruthless about it.
Fact: love is not perfect.
Fact: neither am I.

Karen Marie Moning

#42. The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#43. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Nikola Tesla

#44. Looking back, I see that I was born with the subtle sense that material treasures alone, no matter how grand, would never be enough to satisfy the longing in my heart to see the light, to know the truth.

Rod Stryker

#45. Those who are alone, under hardship or who are ill may find it hard to grasp the Christmas spirit. Thankfully, the miracle of the Christ child born in Bethlehem is what still gives genuine hope to all those who are hurting today.

Dan Davidson

#46. You Are Born Alone
And
You Will Die Alone.
It's All The Loving Memories In Between That Really Counts

Timothy Pina

#47. Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community - not from governmental restraints.

Herbert Hoover

#48. You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

Tom Rachman

#49. We are not born for ourselves alone.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#50. You're born alone and you die alone. At the end of the day you're the only person you can count on. It's

David De Las Morenas

#51. Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each year new, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually born again in thought.

Albert Schweitzer

#52. We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.

Bill Murray

#53. Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

Charles De Secondat

#54. We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#55. I was born to end up alone.

Yana Toboso

#56. Some people were born to face life alone, and this is neither good nor bad, it is simply life.

Paulo Coelho

#57. YOU are born the day you find YOURSELF.

Vikrmn

#58. We've been here dozen of times since we met, but this precious month before the baby is born feels like a last first date. There's a different kind of romance beginning. We will never again be entirely alone in the world

Elizabeth Bard

#59. I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Charlotte Bronte

#60. Acting is not as difficult as you may think. People are born natural actors
and play many parts on the stage of life. Everyone is constantly in front of an
audience - or performing monologues when alone.

Bryan Michael Stoller

#61. Sometimes a mind is just born late, coming through waves on a slower journey. You were never, in the end, alone. Isn't it a blessing, what becomes from inside the alone?

Lidia Yuknavitch

#62. No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

Francis Quarles

#63. Nothing in all Nature is more certain than the fact that no single thing or event can stand alone. It is attached to all that has gone before it, and it will remain attached to all that will follow it. It was born of some cause, and so it must be followed by some effect in an endless chain.

Julian Johnson

#64. She did not sing it at bedtimes because all small boys born to the High Speech must face the dark alone,

Stephen King

#65. We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get your jokes is one of the great joys of life.

Richard Lederer

#66. For those who are with greatness born
Should live not for themselves alone.

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

#67. What gave these krauts a right to say who should be born and who shouldn't, and who could live and be let alone, and who would get caught and killed?

Martha Gellhorn

#68. To a nice ear, the quality of a voice is singularly affecting. Its depth seems to be allied to feeling; at least, the contralto notes alone give an adequate sense of pathos. They are born near the heart.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#69. Franz Kafka wrote, "It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you." And Kafka was born a century before the Internet!

Austin Kleon

#70. I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

Mary MacLane

#71. I just find P.J. Harvey so mesmerising to watch because she remains unfathomable. She is the kind of woman who makes you rue the day you weren't born her. She always seems to be the cat that walks alone, and you don't feel you are supposed to know her.

Alison Moyet

#72. When you learn to read you will be born again ... and you will never be quite so alone again.

Rumer Godden

#73. We aren't born for ourselves alone. Wells couldn't abandon the others after the horror of that day. He needed to get back to help bury Priya, to comfort those who wouldn't be able to sleep. To restrain those whose grief and fear might turn into a need for vengeance.

Kass Morgan

#74. Yes," Elene said, missing or deciding to miss the sarcasm. "Kylar thinks ... Kylar fears that he's a man born to be forever alone. He thinks the last couple of months has been him cheating fate. He's not a man born to be alone, Vi, but some lies take a long time to heal.

Brent Weeks

#75. It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.

Toussaint Louverture

#76. We're born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?

Morgan Llywelyn

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