Were Born Alone Quotes

#1. Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. You were born alone, even if you were born conjoined. And you die alone, unable to bring a single person with you.

Augusten Burroughs

#2. People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book ... " and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.

Laurie Anderson

#3. We were born alone, and we will die alone. But while we are on this planet, we must accept and glorify our act of faith through other people.

Paulo Coelho

#4. Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

Alexandre Dumas

#5. I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

ASAP Ferg

#6. Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

Herbert Croly

#7. A man is born alone and dies alone, and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone, and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Chanakya

#8. Sometimes a mind is just born late, coming through waves on a slower journey. You were never, in the end, alone. Isn't it a blessing, what becomes from inside the alone?

Lidia Yuknavitch

#9. Some people were born to face life alone, and this is neither good nor bad, it is simply life.

Paulo Coelho

#10. Fact: you can never know another person completely.
Fact: you are born alone and die alone.
Fact: there is no such thing as safety. Only vigilance, determination to survive, and a willingness to be ruthless about it.
Fact: love is not perfect.
Fact: neither am I.

Karen Marie Moning

#11. Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Samuel Johnson

#12. 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

#13. The country she had taken for granted as her own, where she had been born, whose language alone she spoke, had rejected her and despised her.

Pearl S. Buck

#14. If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

Fernando Pessoa

#15. Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Mary Baker Eddy

#16. Life was the gift that you were given the day you were born, and in turn you are the gift to life. Only in the moments of being alone in the darkness on the raft, will you have the space to speak, listen, and to act from the heart.

Forrest Curran

#17. You are not alone in this world; you are the vine from a tree that connects all mankind. Long before you were born, God wrote greatness next to your name.

Janet Autherine

#18. Hope never stands alone," he said in a dry, husky voice. "It is born of valor and perseverance. It rides the back of courage.

D. Barkley Briggs

#19. Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.

Matthew Prior

#20. We're born alone, and we die alone.

Emery Lord