Born Alone Quotes

• It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Heart, Mind, Looks

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Jan 29, 2015

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• I was born alone and I will die alone. I've got to do what's right for me and not live my life the way anybody else wants it.

  Curtis Jackson

  Want, Way, Living My Life

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• I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Thinking, Journey, Ends

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• We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

  Yul Brynner

  Love, Life, Death

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• We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Lonely, Being Single

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Dec 02, 2015

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• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty

  "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

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• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Life, Depressing

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• Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne

  Nas

  Thrones, Crowns, Born

  Song: The World is Yours

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• We’re born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Accepting, Born, Middle

  Morgan Llywelyn (2010). “1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War”, p.69, Macmillan

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• 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

  Mistake, People, World

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• We're born alone and we die alone. So in between, let's spend time with people that make us feel good... or at least put-out.

  Dov Davidoff

  People, Feel Good, Born

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• I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

  Grace Jones

  Born, Stage, Dies

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• You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

  Tom Rachman

  Silly, Birth, Nonsense

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• Yeah. Iʼve always felt this way. I mean weʼre born alone, we die alone. And while weʼre here we are absolutely, completely sealed in our own bodies. Really weird. Kinda freaks me out to think about it. We can only experience the outside world through our own slanted perception of it. Who knows what youʼre really like. I just see what I think youʼre like.

  Tom Ford

  Mean, Thinking, Perception

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• 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

  Life, Karma, Being Alone

  "Chanakya Neeti" by Chanakya, (p. 13), 2002.

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• Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow. Yet if we live in terror of it, then we do not live at all. Yes we are born alone, and yes we will die alone. But in between, Tae, we live. We know joy.

  David Gemmell

  Dark, Blood, Joy

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• It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

  Gabriel Byrne

  Giving, Illusion, Born

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• We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.

  Bill Murray

  Lonely, Giving, Live Your Life

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• We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Romance, Looks, Magazines

  Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.215, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Book, Writing, People

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.

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• I'm the young city bandit, hold myself down singlehanded
  For murder raps, I kick my thoughts alone, get remanded
  Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne
  I'm deep by sound alone, caved inside in a thousand miles from home

  Nas

  Rap, Home, Cities

  Song: The World is Yours

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