Top 34 Rather Be By Myself Quotes
#1. If i'm not with somebody who really excites or inspires me, then I'd rather be by myself.
Blake Lively
#2. I'd rather be by myself, really, than have, like, a million posse around me.
Ziggy Marley
#3. I'd rather be by myself than be spending any time or energy on somebody that I didn't feel sure about.
Blake Lively
#4. On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.
Alan Moore
#5. It happened like this, if it happened at all. I would rather go up to heaven by myself than be pushed by cherubs.
E. M. Forster
#6. I set a Google Alert for myself, and now I'm seeing people say my music influenced them and how great it is all the time. Sometimes I listen to this stuff that's supposed to be influenced by me, and I can't hear myself in it. But I'd rather they say it than not.
Giorgio Moroder
#7. I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.
Graham Norton
#8. Fewer than half of churchgoers, including born-again Christians, felt strongly that their church demonstrates unconditional love.
David Kinnaman
#9. I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like ... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'
Drew Barrymore
#10. Most people don't why they are born or why they die. They have no understanding of the forces in life that pull them and push them to their death and another rebirth in this or another world.
Frederick Lenz
#11. I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.
Novala Takemoto
#12. Rather than following a [genealogical] 'line', I find myself drawn to all the people I encounter, including those who, only by the most obtuse reckoning, can be thought of as relatives. Every life deserves telling; none is without drama and change.
Alison Light
#13. Children should be seen and not herded
Bill Liao
#14. We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really.
Morrissey
#15. Bradley shook his head in amusement, For twins, you and your brother are nothing alike. I used to wonder what it would be like to have a twin, but now ... No offense, but I'm rather glad I came by myself.
Nicole Sager
#16. I'm troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I'd rather not think about. The softly spoken soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is my secret crush, my weird pash, and my guilty pleasure.
Robert Webb
#17. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.
Alice Hoffman
#18. That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.
Umberto Eco
#19. I want my audience to say, "Wow, this is a film I'm benefiting from. I'm benefiting from what this filmmaker is trying to say." I'd always rather learn and be entertained than be entertained and feel myself getting dumber by the moment.
Michael Pitt
#20. I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms', all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.
Anthony Braxton
#21. Either my adorably sadistic grandfather has done something terrible to you, or you're about to inform me that I've died by - rather stupidly, if I say so myself - falling off a mountain," he said. "Those seem to be the only two reactions I get these days.
Alexandra Bracken
#22. Ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.
Robert Barry
#23. If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln
#24. Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne W. Dyer
#25. I would like to know more about how to cook Japanese food. I love it, but don't know much about it.
Daniel Humm
#26. I had an opportunity to be in Frank's [Sinatra] circle, but I couldn't take advantage of it because I couldn't get over how awed I was by him. It was so uncomfortable for me because he meant so much to me, but I just couldn't be myself, so I fled rather than having those great nights hanging out.
Ron Perlman
#27. Nothing feels dirtier than living a life that is not your own. No amount of money is worth my soul. I would rather be homeless and go out in a blaze of glory than subject myself to a slow and steady death of apathy and government by my environment.
Chris Matakas
#28. I don't want ... to run away by myself ... because no matter what ... I'd rather be together with everyone ...
Hiro Mashima
#29. I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade.
Miranda Hart
#30. I'd rather live a life I truly love by spending my time doing things I love and have that be my only life rather than devote myself to someone who can't be proven exists at all that wants our time and our love more than our virtues simply just so I can live again
Anonymous
#31. I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.
Arnold Bennett
#32. Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
Socrates
#33. They exist both as particles and as one
great unbroken whole,because there's no
distinction between parts and the whole in Nothing.
Ilchi Lee
#34. I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
Maggie Wheeler
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