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Quotes About Living alone

I don't think I could live with anybody. I had roommates, and it's not for me. I like my space!
~ Ashley Benson
The wanting, the needing, the distance, the disappointment: growing, knowing, committing, aging beside another. Alone, one can live perfectly. But not a life.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
~ Felix Dennis
No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence,—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream—alone. . . . He
~ Joseph Conrad
No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence,—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream—alone . . .
~ Joseph Conrad
So maybe it's not sad that Gran lives alone. Maybe it's a choice. "But what if it never rains again here?" I ask her. She makes a quick face—like a face she might make if I were blowing that whistle right in her ear. Then she says, "I guess I'll have to take that question one day at a time.
~ Wendy Mass
Mark my words: living alone is the ultimate exploration of inner truth. It's one thing to see yourself as a web of changing relationships: to others, to society, to material things and places. It's quite another to see simply yourself, to be your own companion, to talk to yourself and answer back honestly. Your times change because others change them for you. My changes come purely from within.
~ Wil McCarthy
Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact.
~ Agatha Christie
I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
~ Mary Douglas
I didn't grow up with pets, but I live alone and figured a dog might be good for me. His name is Drexl, and he's a shih-tzu.
~ Marsha Thomason
One of the down-side factors to living alone is that you sometimes get overly absorbed with how exact segments of time are consumed, and can begin to feel a pleasure with life that is hopelessly tinged with longing.
~ Richard Ford
YOU HAVE the right to my help. I am your creator. Your problems are my problems. Ask me for help. I give it to you gladly. I am saddened when you try to live alone. My desire for you is union and fulfillment. I am your answered prayer. I am always what you seek.
~ Julia Cameron
He pictured her living alone in that tranquil house with its fine old furnishings, tending her flowers and fruit trees.
~ Julia Glass
Viver sozinho tem momentos de auto-comiseração e paranóia.
~ Julian Barnes
Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.
~ Anna Held
A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.
~ John Dewey
I moved out of my house at 17 and half, I rented an apartment... I pulled all the things off. It was pretty amazing and I lived a pretty good life, I had a car and I was making good money.
~ Eric Hernandez
No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
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
It isn't a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy.
~ Dustin Hoffman
I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.
~ Lois Battle, Storyville
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
I was doing chemistry in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. It was the first time I'd lived alone, and I had an epiphany while I was spending a lot of time watching TV and decided I wanted try acting.
~ Retta
After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named one of them Penelope, and I would talk to her and water her every day. Apparently, I over-watered her, and she died. That's when I knew I needed a roommate. So I got one.
~ Kristy Swanson