Living Alone Quotes

“You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp it in her own understanding. Her active living was suspended, but underneath, in the darkness, something was coming to pass. If only she could break through the last integuments!”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“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

“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, Where the Peacocks Sing: A Palace, a Prince, and the Search for Home

“Prudence's flat was in the kind of block where Jane imagined people might be found dead, though she had never said this to Prudence herself; it seemed rather a macabre fancy and not one to be confided to an unmarried woman living alone.”
― Barbara Pym, Jane and Prudence

“Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.”
― Vann Chow, The White Man and the Pachinko Girl

“Living on one's own is not always ideal - but then, neither is marriage. The mated format is charted territory. Those venturing into singlehood are the Lewis and Clarks of a pioneering lifestyle with few maps, unexpected ambushes, and an infinity of adventures. Therein lies its glory!”
― Barbara Feldon, Living Alone and Loving It

“...go live happily alone requires a serious amount of intentional thought. It's not as simple as signing the lease on your own apartment and leaving it at that. You must figure out what you need to feel comfortable at home and in the world, no matter your means (indeed, staying within your means), and arrange your life accordingly--a metaphorical architecture.”
― Kate Bolick

“Rule number one when cooking: never believe the recipe.”
― Anissa Rafeh, Beirut to the 'burbs

“One perk of living alone is there’s no one to judge me.”
― Ben Monopoli, Homo Action Love Story! A tall tale

“It´s a sin how happy I can be living alone like a hermit.”
― Jack Kerouac, Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

“This is not a real book. It does not deal with real people, nor should it be read by real people. But there are in the world so many real books already written for the benefit of real people, and there are still so many to be written, that I cannot believe that a little alien book such as this, written for the magically-inclined minority, can be considered a trespasser.”
― Stella Benson

“You have only recently been introduced to the types of silences that exist in a home with one occupant, and emotionally you stagger about this new reality like a sailor returned to land after decades at sea.”
― Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

“As long as I lived by myself, it seemed rather easy to keep the elder son hidden from view. But the sharing of life with people who are not hiding their feelings soon confronted me with the elder son within. There is little romanticism to community life. There is the constant need to keep stepping out of the engulfing darkness onto the platform of the father’s embrace. By just simply being who they are, they break through my sophisticated defenses and demand that I be as open with them as they are with me.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

“...I don't with my heart believe that a woman can live alone. When she is very young and trying to learn what life is about, when she is full of ideas about Tolstoy or Van Gogh, then she can live alone, or just bounce off people and be happy. But when she is older--just old enough to be aware of mystery and force--then she can't be alone. If everyone had to keep to his separate cell no one would want to live.

[Jan Deverell]”
― Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

“The upside to living alone is that I'm the boss; the downside, I have to boss myself around a lot.”
― Brian Spellman, We have our difference in common 2.

“Like Bukowski I lived alone, but it never felt right.”
― Avijeet Das

“Living in outer nature keeps the senses keen, and living alone stirs in them a certain watchfulness.”
― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod