Life Lived Alone Quotes

#1. For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing
lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be
there to know what we have done for those we love.

Frank Pittman

#2. A life lived alone simply feels long and boring. But a life shared with someone you love reaches the place of parting in no time at all.

Kyoichi Katayama

#3. I learned much too late
that what you called love
was nothing but a
desperate and irrational
fear of a life lived alone.

Beau Taplin

#4. My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.

Sylvia Plath

#5. entrepreneurs can't use the excuse that "I don't have time, I'm running a business." This is your business.

James Altucher

#6. 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

#7. Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

Nina Simone

#8. It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Walt Kelly

#9. A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates

Samuel Richardson

#10. If you really want to contribute to our theoretical understanding of physical laws - and it is an exciting experience if you succeed! - there are many things you need to know. First of all, be serious about it!

Gerard 't Hooft

#11. I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.

Arthur C. Clarke

#12. I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.

Bryan Clay

#13. I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived.

Charles Mingus

#14. People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

David Mamet

#15. Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.
- Sanskrit poem

Robin Craig Clark

#16. He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life.

Alethea Kontis

#17. Good gods, female," Addolgar muttered. "What did you do with yourself before I came into your life?"
"I lived quietly alone in my cave," she snapped back. "And I was quite happy there, too.

G.A. Aiken

#18. He'd lived so much of his life for sexual love, which was a filthy thing, really, all that saliva and semen and anal smears, filthy! Much better to live alone and watch TV in bed or talk to Pierre-Georges as he was in his bed and watching the same movie. Both of them spotlessly clean.

Edmund White

#19. It was the happiest Christmas Eve he had ever spent. To quote his own words, he had a rotten Christmas.

Saki

#20. I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

Margaret Atwood

#21. Who we really are shows up between extending the olive branch and waiting to see if it is received.

Bonnie Lyn Smith

#22. Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free ... I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.

Ellen Glasgow

#23. Our worst memories are precious, things we can't or won't forget, and sometimes they're what we guard the most.

Joe Hart

#24. He had lived alone most of his life. He was used to places that were empty. He knew the real shelter of a home was inside yourself.

Michael Connelly

#25. While each of us must walk this path alone, we need not do so without the empathy, the encouragement and the love of others who are travelling, or have travelled, this terrain - or those who having lived life long and deep and can meet us there, with wisdom and compassion.

Meryn G. Callander

#26. An introverted person obviously affected by her past. Lived alone, had no sex life, had difficulty getting close to people. Kept her distance, and when she let loose there was no restraint. She chose a stranger for a lover.

Stieg Larsson

#27. But if science cannot answer some ultimate question, what makes anybody think that religion can?

Richard Dawkins

#28. You take a shower, your head is up, far away from everything, lost in the clouds, but down in the tub, man, you know who you are.

Toby Barlow

#29. In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.

Tim Willocks

#30. The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.

Matthew West

#31. Tom hunts alone. While shunned by all he sees, he grows aware that, in reality, life is lived alone. When with a hen, there's only an illusion of sharing; a pretence that life's trials are easier to endure. Even sleep is a barrier that can't be shared.

Peter Gray