Can Live Alone Quotes

#1. He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Baltasar Gracian

#2. I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.

Mary Cassatt

#3. 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

#4. A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.

Nawal El Saadawi

#5. We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. I can't keep a baby," A.J. says firmly. "I haven't slept in two nights. She's a terrorist! She wakes up at, like, insane times. Three forty-five in the morning seems to be when her day begins. I live alone. I'm poor. You can't raise a baby on books alone.

Gabrielle Zevin

#7. If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#8. We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.

Wendell Berry

#9. You can choose to die. You can choose to run ... but dying alone won't change a thing. Trust me on that one. If you really want things to change ... you're going to have to live.

Kazuya Minekura

#10. If I can't spend the rest of my life with you, I will live alone.

Delano Johnson

#11. Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of sense and human reason. If it is to be measured by a strict standard of holiness, by religious normativity alone, then there can never be a moral capitalism.

Stephen Young

#12. No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

Seneca The Younger

#13. A man can't live alone forever and when a woman comes along who accepts him, his faults and demons, maybe it's time he reevaluates his future.

Airicka Phoenix

#14. We live among wicked man through our own wickedness. One thing alone can bring us peace, an agreement to treat one another with kindness.

Seneca.

#15. He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail: knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life.

Evelyn Underhill

#16. You're not alone, there is more to this I know. You can make it out, you will live to tell.

Saosin

#17. Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the principles - live on and on.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.

Ellen Goodman

#19. You are right; I am not good at moving in society. Be merciful. You do not understand me; I live in the woods by choice
that is my happiness. Here, where I am all alone, it can hurt no one that I am as I am; but when I go among others, I have to use all my will power to be as I should.

Knut Hamsun

#20. What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#21. Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

#22. Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell.

Charlotte Eriksson

#23. Learn to live without self-concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas and live by truth alone.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

#24. They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.

Mark Twain

#25. They often say that humans can't live alone. But you can live pretty long by yourself. Instead of feeling alone in a group. It's better to be alone in your solitude.

Faye Valentine

#26. One can't live on love alone; and I am so stupid that I can do nothing but think of him.

Sophia Tolstaya

#27. Some of us don't want to be a housewife. When you live alone, you can do anything you want to do anytime you want. I really like it.

Grace Slick

#28. I can live without love. And with that she left Westley alone.

William Goldman

#29. People sometimes ask me if I do not feel lonely on holidays. How can I feel lonely when I live in the constant awareness of God's presence? I love and I enjoy being with people, but when I am alone I enjoy being alone with God.

Peace Pilgrim

#30. It's hard enough judging the motives of people who live in our own times, let alone the motives of those who've been dead three hundred years. They can't come back and tell us, can they?

Susanna Kearsley

#31. Sam's probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self," Caine said. "I can't let that boy save the world all alone. I'd never live it down.

Michael Grant

#32. In the end, the claim that just social structures would make works of charity superfluous masks a materialist conception of man: the mistaken notion that man can live "by bread alone" (Mt 4:4; cf. Dt 8:3) - a conviction that demeans man and ultimately disregards all that is specifically human.

Pope Benedict XVI

#33. I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

Jeanne Moreau

#34. Can we have breakfast now? No matter how sweet it is, a man can't live on pussy alone.

Rene Webb

#35. How can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?

James Baldwin

#36. NO! Don't force yourself to be alone! If you're alive, you can meet that person, somewhere, someday! The person that will be glad that you're alive! You can't ... you can't want yourself to die!! So ... live ...

Yukiru Sugisaki

#37. Maybe man cannot live on chocolate alone, but a woman can.

Jill Shalvis

#38. Where man can't live gods fare no better. You'll see. It's better to be alone.

Cormac McCarthy

#39. How do people who live utterly alone survive? There are so many things that won't open. I've got a few dresses in New York, and I can somehow get them on, but I can't get them off.

Marian Seldes

#40. You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.

Wendell Berry

#41. You can survive alone, or you can *live* together. I know which option William would chose - has chosen," he said, shaking me as if he wished he could shake some sense into me. "You have to make your choice.

Nicole Williams

#42. We're not alive to be alone on the planet. We're alive to share, to eat together and love together and laugh together and cry together. If you can never love because you will always lose, what reason is there to live?

Jackie Kay

#43. You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and marry them.

Ariel Pink

#44. We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

Nathan M. Pusey

#45. Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

Joyce Carol Oates

#46. Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#47. It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

Gabriel Byrne

#48. When you live alone people are always thinking they can stay with you, when the opposite is true: who they should stay with is a person whose situation is already messed up by other people and so one more won't matter.

Miranda July

#49. People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can't live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

Karl Lagerfeld

#50. When crew and captain understand each other to the core, It takes a gale and more than a gale to put their ship ashore; For the one will do what the other commands, although they are chilled to the bone; And both together can live through weather that neither could face alone. KIPLING

Lettie B. Cowman

#51. Older patients who live alone can become depressed.

Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#52. Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#53. Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

Gael Garcia Bernal

#54. Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.

W. H. Auden

#55. The Poets say you can live on love alone, but if that were true their books would be free.

Betsy Talbot

#56. No one can live happily who has regard to himself alone and transforms everything into a question of his own utility; you must live for your neighbour, if you would live for yourself. - SENECA

Jonathan Haidt

#57. Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

Elie Wiesel

#58. We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

Ray Bradbury

#59. Nothing out there tells us how we must live: we and we alone can now with confidence knowingly trust our own hearts, and admit that we do and must invent our own ethics.

Don Cupitt

#60. As per the Wisdom of the Ancient One: "Man, can not live by smoothies alone.

Jacques

#61. Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone

Ouida

#62. Rooms are never alone," said the Doctor with a laugh. "Only the people who live them can be alone.

Charles Lambert

#63. I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

Albert Camus

#64. Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

Eric Maisel

#65. ISMENE: How can I live alone, without her?
CREON: Her? Don't even mention her
she no longer exists.
ISMENE: What? You'd kill your own son's bride?
CREON: Absolutely: there are other fields for him to plow.

Sophocles

#66. Try as we might, we cannot force our children to reach their full potential. Theirs is the life that they alone must live. The role of the parent is to prepare the most fertile soil and appropriately water the seedling so it can most fully blossom.

Gabriel Cousens M.D.

#67. Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#68. I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone.

Ingmar Bergman

#69. Man can live by bread alone when all his energies are devoted to attaining that bread, but once his mind is clear, once he has ceased to labour through all his waking hours to find food, then he begins to think.

Michael Moorcock

#70. Your journey is completely yours. It is unique. Others may try to steal part of it, tell it in their words or shape it to suit them. Reality is no one can live it or own it but you. Take charge of your journey, it's yours and yours alone!

Kemi Sogunle

#71. If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark. And that only I can know, only I can understand my own condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too.

Michael Cunningham

#72. Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone.
Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other people.

Thomas Davidson

#73. I know you can't live on hope alone; but without hope, life is not worth living. So you, and you and you: you got to give them hope; you got to give them hope.

Harvey Milk

#74. Anger is great. It's powerful, when you need something to hold you up. Something to steel your spine. But in the dark, when you're alone with the truth, anger can't survive. The only thing that can live in the dark with you is fear.

Rachel Vincent

#75. When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

Ben Harper

#76. You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story because the world needs your voice.

Kerry Washington

#77. I was learning the hard way that the gospel alone can free us from our addiction to being liked - that Jesus measured up for us so that we wouldn't have to live under the enslaving pressure of measuring up for others.

Tullian Tchividjian

#78. A person can always live life of his own only if he is prepared to stand alone when there is none to support the things that he applauds, believes and cherishes in his soul.

Anuj

#79. The history of the kings is the story of how those who had been anointed failed to live up to that anointing. It is this fact alone that can explain the rise of messianism: belief in the anointed one who will fulfil his anointing.' 14

Jurgen Moltmann

#80. our childhood is over now, Marshal. Mankind can survive very well without an intimate study of your susceptibilities but not, unfortunately, without your other functions and talents. Do you think I bring any child into the world to live for himself alone?

Dorothy Dunnett

#81. No, no, sometimes a person feels to be alone."
"If you're alone too much," Persky said, "you think too much."
"Without a life," Rosa answered, "a person lives where they can. If all they got is thoughts, that's where they live."
"You ain't got a life?"
"Thieves took it.

Cynthia Ozick

#82. Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.

Bill Cosby

#83. I live this life at a pace that anyone can go.
Know your place, and dedicate your role
... To the faith that you'll die alone

Kendrick Lamar

#84. 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

#85. Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone."
"Shut up shut up ... Everybody's alone."
He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.

Theodore Sturgeon

#86. Art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#87. The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we all must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone.

Ross Parmenter

#88. It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who have time before them for the execution of schemes, and who can, therefore, take delight in thinking

Anthony Trollope

#89. If you can't live together, you're gonna die alone.

Jack Shephard

#90. 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

#91. We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

#92. Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day.

Nadeem Aslam

#93. Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

Saul Bellow

#94. You must live in a place where you can walk safely all alone even after midnights!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#95. Don't be a coward, driving away anyone who cares enough to see you for yerself. It's easy to live yer life alone, son. It takes courage to live with another. But in the end, yer life can be so much richer for it

Sabrina Jeffries

#96. There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

Simon Pegg

#97. A librarian can't live by books alone, and I wouldn't eat them if I could. Feel too much like cannibalism.

Mike Mullin

#98. Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

Haruki Murakami

#99. I'm not a rich person financially, but I am in mind and soul. I have so much energy and strength, and I can do a lot of things that make me, and I think my fans, quite happy. When everything's gone, music alone shall live on.

Burning Spear

#100. 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