Top 100 Live Alone Quotes

#1. Facing that was my ultimate fear and my biggest freedom. I was alone. I was tiny. I was no one. Live or die, the world wouldn't know or care.

Pepper Winters

#2. With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

Buddha

#3. When shall we pass a day alone? I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love - but if you should deny me the thousand and first - 'twould put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.

John Keats

#4. Alone: it was no way to live and it was no way to die.

Rob Thurman

#5. For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge,
I live alone, I look to die alone:
Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through the sedge,
Ghosts of my buried years, and friends come back,
My heart goes sighing after swallows flown
On sometime summer's unreturning track.

Christina Rossetti

#6. Better it is to live alone; there is no fellowship with a fool. Live alone and do no evil; be carefree like an elephant in the elephant forest.

Gautama Buddha

#7. The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline ... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Vivienne Westwood

#8. 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

#9. There is no imagination in the world. A person like me is basically alone. If I want to live in the same world as other people I have to make a special effort.

Victor Lodato

#10. Loneliness was the price of the quest. I don't belong to the people who cannot live alone

Mies Van Der Rohe

#11. 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

#12. I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - you are always surrounded by security.

Helen Mirren

#13. Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him.

John Of The Cross

#14. I had chosen to leave, and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future.

Alison Singh Gee

#15. I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you ... And you ... And you ... Gotta give em hope.

Harvey Milk

#16. The moment of victory is too short to live for that alone.

Martina Navratilova

#17. Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

George Crabbe

#18. No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

Edie Brickell

#19. What do you dream?
To live with and alongside ... rather than without and alone.

Charles Martin

#20. That I might live alone once with my gold!
O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true:
A man may trust it when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf!
That which makes all men false, is true itself.

Ben Jonson

#21. We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

Marcel Proust

#22. We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#23. When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible - and much quicker - to cry alone.

Caitlin Moran

#24. 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

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

Charles Lambert

#26. I had a brief runaway fantasy where I ran away to California, which I'd never been to, to where all the Bigfoots were, and I'd disappear into the woods and live alone, become a rumor, an occasional blurred sighting. Father

Paul Tremblay

#27. There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#28. The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

#29. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Swami Vivekananda , Ramakrishna Paramhans, Sarda Devi

#30. It seems you don't approve of the family business Katerina. Or of me. But these chances you take ... These things you do ... This is a dangerous life to live ... alone.

Ally Carter

#31. 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

#32. That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#33. 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

#34. Were every man to live according to his desires alone, the world would descend into chaos

Sherry Jones

#35. He tasted like a dark, decadent dessert. I had a feeling I could live on that taste alone for months; that his kiss was something I could become addicted to.

Nichole Chase

#36. I was still hurting, my heart still aching with all of the loss, but I began to attempt to live again.
To wake, to move, to try taking small steps in the right direction. I was alone in that path.

R.K. Lilley

#37. He thought how silly it was that he believed in something so arbitrary. He foolishly believed he had a purpose, that he was destined for something better.
Now he had to live with the fact that he was just a lonely boy with no identity at all.
And he had made a lot of terrible mistakes.

Kris Noel

#38. 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

#39. They alone live, who live for others.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Saul Bellow

#41. But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.

Robin Hobb

#42. My life on earth is personal journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. Man cannot live by profit alone.

James A. Baldwin

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

Albert Schweitzer

#45. He takes note of every action, thought, and attitude of the heart lived out in secret. Each moment is an opportunity to love and delight Him as we live for His eyes alone.

Anna Blanc

#46. The real American ideal of cool which is building businesses, protecting freedom at home and abroad, taking responsibility for your actions, and leaving other people alone to live as they damn well please.

Greg Gutfeld

#47. For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.

Vladimir Nabokov

#48. Think carefully. We only have one life to live. We alone are responsible for it.

Ayse Kulin

#49. Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.'
To live alone?'
To live. With what you are.

John Fowles

#50. 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

#51. Fortunately, how we choose to be today is not predetermined by how we were yesterday...You and you alone choose moment by moment who and how you want to be in the world. I encourage you to pay attention to what is going on in your brain. Own your power and show up for your life.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#52. Man does not live by bread alone.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#53. When individuals are established in universal consciousness, they live the scientific reality of the unity of life spontaneously in accord with all the laws of nature. This experience alone will transform our collective reality - our human civilization to one of unity, peace, and harmony.

John Hagelin

#54. I've always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I'm not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.

Sara Quin

#55. Quit living for the world, live for yourself just you alone because it's starts with you.

Euginia Herlihy

#56. 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

#57. The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure ... you are above everything distressing.

Baruch Spinoza

#58. [...] Wasn't it lonely? Your life, I mean."
"Yes."
"You're alone?"
"Yes."
"You live alone?"
"I am entirely alone, Marian," I repeated quietly.

John Boyne

#59. 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

#60. Indeed, we often so live as though we had no spirit in us, and the highest degree of human depravity is manifested by the fact that the spirit is completely stifled and the man becomes as though he were flesh alone.

John Of Kronstadt

#61. Let us use texts of Scripture as fuel for our heart's fire, they are live coals; let us attend sermons, but above all, let us be much alone with Jesus.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Mark Twain

#63. I would rather live a life alone, than live a life built on lies, deceit and manipulation".

Linda Simpson

#64. This is real, and I didn't leave you alone. I have always loved you, and I will love you until the end of time. Now, wake up and live.

Tammy Blackwell

#65. We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.

J.B. Priestley

#66. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.

Boris Pasternak

#67. The New Testament never uses the expression 'help' of the grace of God in the soul. We have absolutely no power - God is not to help us, because we are weak: no, He is to give His life and His power in us as entirely impotent. He that discerns this aright will learn to live by faith alone.

Andrew Murray

#68. Still, what was the point to love if it didn't make you feel like you could fly? You might as well live alone.

Barbara Bretton

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. 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

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

Delano Johnson

#73. No, we are never alone. But one has to live apart to know it for the truth.

Henry Miller

#74. Man does not live by bread alone, but he certainly does not live without the bread.

Emmet Larkin

#75. Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Coco Chanel

#76. I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#77. The worldview of the Christian faith is simple enough. God has put enough into this world to make faith in him a most reasonable thing. But he has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason alone. The

Ravi Zacharias

#78. One could not live forever, though, upon memories and dreams. One could not forever ignore the fact that one was alone and that perhaps one would be alone for the rest of one's life.

Mary Balogh

#79. Because we live in a fallen world, we suffer. But those of us who know Jesus are never alone in the suffering, that is the promise.

Melissa Turner Lee

#80. these stones to become loaves of bread." 4But Jesus told him, "No! The Scriptures say, 'People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'*

Anonymous

#81. Al-Lah alone decides whether we live or die. The rest is vanity.

Sherry Jones

#82. They alone moved through the vast inertness. They alone were alive, and they sought for other things that were alive in order that they might devour them and continue to live.

Jack London

#83. I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

Caleb Carr

#84. In most Arab countries, it is still taboo for a woman to live alone and honour killings are still sanctioned. It is estimated that in Jordan, approximately 20 women are murdered by their own relatives every year. Most

Harvey Tripp

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. Man lives by bread alone, when there is no bread.

Douglas McGregor

#88. Don't leave me alone!
A cry in the night,
OF anguish heart-stiking,
Of soul-killing fright.
Live for my living
Or else I must die
Don't leave me alone.
A world heard that cry.

Anne McCaffrey

#89. A kind of bogan embodiment of Eastern philosophy, Prue swears prolifically, sells organic vegetables out the front of her house, is a strict vegan, chemical-free ('apart from toothpaste') and determined to live alone.

Anna Krien

#90. Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

Albert Camus

#91. Playing live was always definitely a lot more fun. You picture it: working alone in the studio eight or 10 hours a day with nobody else there, being frustrated and driven crazy by all of the things that you have to deal with, vs. thousands of people screaming and singing along with you playing.

Tom Scholz

#92. We cannot live for ourselves alone.

Herman Melville

#93. Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

Pablo Picasso

#94. well', he said. 'most people aren't like you. They're locked up in themselves. They live in their castles - all alone. They're like me.'
'Well, everyone lives in his own castle', said Maude. 'But that's no reason not to lower the drawbridge and go out on visits.

Colin Higgins

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

Jill Shalvis

#96. Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

Sissy Spacek

#97. Writers in Latin America live in a reality that is extraordinarily demanding. Surprisingly, our answer to these demands protects and develops our individuality. I feel I am not alone in trying to give their voice to those who don't have it.

Elena Poniatowska

#98. Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He'd leave you alone if he thought you were going to live in mediocrity. If you keep pressing on toward your promise, through faith and patience, you will get there.

Joel Osteen

#99. Beckett pulled Blake's face back to look at him and held it in his hand.
Never alone, bro. You're never alone as long as I live.

Debra Anastasia

#100. To live without you, only that would be torture." "A day alone, only that would be death.

Charles Addams

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