Top 57 I'll Rather Be Alone Quotes
#1. A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams, or your dignity ... I would rather be alone with dignity than in a relationship that requires me to sacrifice my self respect.
Dinkar Kalotra
#2. Usually spending any amount of time with someone was a forcible reminder of how much I'd rather be alone.
Robyn Schneider
#3. If I could be alone, I would. Gratefully. I'd rather be alone than have to pretend I'm okay.
Katja Millay
#4. I'd rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prision of my own making
Tahereh Mafi
#5. I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.
Peter Robinson
#6. I'd rather love you and be alone than love you and be with her or anyone.
Beth Harbison
#7. I would rather walk over coals with you then stay safe and alone. I would rather face the misgivings and the judgement and be by your side, then go the safe route without you. You're worth it all, so worth it, and in the end, that's all that matters to me. You are all that matters.
Karina Halle
#8. I had rather be a meteor, single, alone.'
Plus Paris itself was noisome. Even with its glittering bridges and orangeries, even if the birthplace of ballet.
'I had rather been a meteor, than a star in a crowd.
Danielle Dutton
#9. And I choose to be alone
Rather than wrapped in arms I could never need.
Merrit Malloy
#10. When I am alone, my table manners are rather piggish, but i suppose that's because I don't eat at a table, I eat at my desk. Which could be considered a table, except we tend to define things by their function, and this particular surface is a desk, so perhaps piggish is unfair.
Kelli Jae Baeli
#12. I was just getting to the good bit when I heard the sound of his footsteps approaching and wasn't sure whether I would rather be alone with him or alone to finish my book. Men come and go. A good book lasts forever.
Chloe Thurlow
#13. I've finally gotten to a point in my life where I'm not afraid to speak. Where my shadow no longer haunts me. And I don't want to lose that freedom
not again. I can't go backward. I'd rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prison of my own making.
Tahereh Mafi
#14. At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone ... I became a loner in my own mind ... I decided I'd rather be alone.
Andy Warhol
#15. I had spent so much time secretly scared of rape that in that moment I was hardly even afraid anymore. Or rather I had moved on to my next fear - what happens when it's over? Would I be left there, alone? Injured? Or worse?
Amber Dawn
#16. I have always known there is a difference between loneliness and aloneness. I am alone, but my father is lonely. And if I had to choose one, I would rather be alone.
Ted Michael
#17. A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.
Jose Andres
#18. It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.
Ava Dellaira
#19. Some of these new country singers aren't really country. I think some of them ought to be singing pop music and just leave country alone. You don't have to see them, you can hear it. It is what it is, I guess, but I'd still rather they just let the ones that sing country sing country.
Loretta Lynn
#20. If the desire to have children is just a way to build some noisy tribe of distraction around oneself, then I'd rather be alone.
Meghan Daum
#21. This picnic will soon depart
Real life, I'm sad to see you go
I'll miss you with all my heart
But I'd rather be alone
'Cause I couldn't live without
Sunsets that dazzle in the dusk
So I'll drag the anchor up
And rest assured, 'cause dreams don't turn to dust.
Owl City
#22. I'd rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.
Lady Gaga
#23. Lost or Alone? Ambrose said alone, and Fern responded, "I would much rather be lost with you than alone without you, so I choose lost with a caveat." Ambrose responded, "No caveats," to which Fern replied, "Then lost, because alone feels permanent, and lost can be found." Streetlights
Amy Harmon
#24. I'd rather be robbed by an armed highway man than the politicians and their bankers. A highway man gets away from you as fast as he can and lets you alone. The politician robs you and stands there and insists he did it for your own good.
Raymond C. Hoiles
#25. If your pop had dumped me, I wouldn't have moved on either. He was mine, and no other man would do. Holding onto what I loved wouldn't have made me weak. It'd make me strong enough to be alone rather than with a man who gives me less than I need.
Bijou Hunter
#26. 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
#27. I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.
Susan Rice
#28. I'm definitely happy by my self, you know what I mean. The money is better. But you know, I'd just rather be alone.
Sean Price
#29. 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
#30. My lord, I'd rather be alone."
His smile vanished. Not a single muscle in his body bulged, but the color of his eyes turned to dark ashes.
"And I'd rather not.
Chris Lange
#31. Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.
Garcelle Beauvais
#32. I'd rather be a complete mess with you than spend another day shattered all over the floor alone.
Tara Sivec
#33. I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read
Elizabeth Knox
#34. And I'm not going to get any thinner or any younger, my ass is going to hit the ground, if it hasn't already
and I want to be with somebody who can still see me in here. I'm still in here. And I don't want to be resented or despised for changing ... I'd rather be alone.
Zadie Smith
#35. I don't want to make a mistake and marry the wrong woman. I'd rather be alone.
Danielle Steel
#36. I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.
Emily Giffin
#37. I've been watching you and Roar. Wanting it to be me training with you." His shoulders came up. "I don't want to do it now."
"Why?" Aria's voice was high and thin.
He smiled, a flash of shyness, before he leaned close. "There are other things I'd rather do when I'm alone with you.
Veronica Rossi
#38. The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I will be when at last I fully begin to be. But unless I desire this identity and work to find it with Him and in Him, the work will never be done
Thomas Merton
#39. I'd rather be alone with the bills, she thought as she pushed the elevator button. At least you know where you stand.
Katherine Pancol
#40. 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
#41. I would spend my nights at home but if it means contention. I'd rather be alone tell the service man cut the phones.
Buju Banton
#42. I'm blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I'm stupid enough to think I'd rather be alone.
Adam Silvera
#43. I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Elizabeth I
#45. It was V-day and I was stuck at home while the guy I was dating was at an Anti-Valentine's Day party. How wrong was that? It was one thing to be totally alone on V-day, but another to want to be with someone who would rather spend the evening protesting love instead of making it.
Kate Madison
#46. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.
Cheryl Strayed
#47. I'd rather be completely alone than with a bunch of people aren't real.
Sarah Ockler
#48. I guess I've found that I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person.
Kristan Higgins
#49. I would rather be lost with you than alone without you.
Amy Harmon
#50. To console does not mean to take away the pain but rather to be there and say, You are not alone, I am with you. Together
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#51. Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.
John Lubbock
#52. But if as you read this book you're saying to yourself: "I'd rather be miserably married than be alone." Well young lady, take out your clown shoes and buckle your seat belt - it's going to be a very bumpy one-woman circus.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#53. I would rather have lost my memory again with her than to have her be alone in this.
Colleen Hoover
#54. I would rather live out on the desert alone, like an old prospector. All I needed was a small water source. What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.
Janet Fitch
#55. I'd much rather be eating a bar of chocolate or even something healthy like a lettuce leaf alone at my desk than sitting through this silent, painful meal.
Sarah Darer Littman
#56. I would rather be alone than having a solitary company.
Pushpa Rana
#57. I'd rather be alone and be happy with my own company than be somebody I'm not so I can fit in with people whose company I despise.
Lorelei James
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