Living alone and drinking alone turns any strong man into…

“Proverbs from the East: The wind howls, but the mountain remains still. Even though I make no special attempt to observe the discipline of…

— Susan Cain

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom…

— Jonathan Tropper

“The Gift that Keeps on Giving I once had a lovely real estate client named Jane who was an elderly lady living alone. Her…

— Susan C. Young

I like living alone.

— Amanda Blake

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

— Mason Cooley

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning.…

— Anonymous

“Evie says, “It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.” I write: i know girls who say that about their…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

— Jackie Kennedy

Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from…

— Haruki Murakami

I'm starting to understand why librarians end up single and living alone with a cat. Cause people suck a big one.

— Anonymous

There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found…

— Michael Finkel

“The man seemed not to have heard him. ‘At this life-giving time of the year, Professor Scrooge,’ said the pastor, clicking his pen, ‘it…

— Ashley Elizabeth Blair Tetzlaff

The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to…

— Philip Roth

People living alone get used to loneliness.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I am not mad here, but clear and calm. I am not transformed, but allowed to be wholly myself.I am isolated, but have never…

— Jon Katz