Rather Be Alone Than Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.

Garcelle Beauvais

#3. 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

#4. She'd rather be alone than settle just because she was lonely, but sometimes - not that she'd admit it to another soul - that choice sucked.

Donna Alward

#5. I'd rather be alone than unhappy

Whitney Houston

#6. If I could be alone, I would. Gratefully. I'd rather be alone than have to pretend I'm okay.

Katja Millay

#7. I would rather be alone than having a solitary company.

Pushpa Rana

#8. I guess I've found that I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person.

Kristan Higgins

#9. 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

#10. Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it

Tony Blair

#11. I'd rather love you and be alone than love you and be with her or anyone.

Beth Harbison

#12. 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

#13. And I choose to be alone
Rather than wrapped in arms I could never need.

Merrit Malloy

#14. Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone.

David Steindl-Rast

#15. Rather be alone in the presence of God than with a crowd outside the presence of God.

Evans Biya

#16. It's hard not
to jump out
instead of
waiting to be
found. It's
hard to be
alone so long
and then hear
someone come
around. It's
like some form
of skin's developed
in the air
that, rather
than have torn,
you tear.
Hide and Seek

Kay Ryan

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. I'd rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.

Lady Gaga

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

Susan Rice

#25. Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.

Alain De Botton

#26. The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone?

Graham Greene

#27. I'd rather be completely alone than with a bunch of people aren't real.

Sarah Ockler

#28. I'd rather be a complete mess with you than spend another day shattered all over the floor alone.

Tara Sivec

#29. If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold

Lucy Parsons

#30. She would rather be alone in her room than alone in the midst of a celebration she was not a part of.

Malinda Lo

#31. In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

Harold Brodkey

#32. Hide and Seek
It's hard not
to jump out
instead of waiting to be
found. It's
hard to be
alone so long
and then hear
someone come
around. It's
like some form
of skin's developed
in the air
that, rather
than have torn,
you tear.

Kay Ryan

#33. Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.

Vincent De Paul

#34. We're not alone
at least, we're alone only if we choose to be alone. We're alone only if we choose to go through life relying solely on our own strength rather than learning to draw upon the power of God.

Sheri Dew

#35. I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

#36. [We should be] determined ... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government ... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

#37. I would rather be lost with you than alone without you.

Amy Harmon

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. I would rather have lost my memory again with her than to have her be alone in this.

Colleen Hoover

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. He saw you in your own Gethsemane and He didn't want you to be alone..He would rather go to hell for you than to haven without you.

Max Lucado

#44. I'd rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prision of my own making

Tahereh Mafi