Alone Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image “To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alone Charm Charm Marriage Down How Marriage Marriage Boils Shameful Shameful Extent Unpleasant
I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I'm a loner, so independent it's awful. It's one of the main reasons for the failures of my marriages. — Amanda Blake Copy Share Image
I'm not saying it's for everyone, but it's better to be alone than in a lousy relationship. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
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I'm used to living alone, and I like it that way. You become so selfish living alone...I'd make a terrible husband anyway. — Paul Lynde Copy Share Image
The state of being alone is truly invigorating. One should get accustomed with that in a slow and steady manner. However, it's great being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
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I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I can be taken away from myself quite easily, I kind of start betraying myself and compromising my integrity, to keep someone else happy.… — Aimee Lou Wood Copy Share Image
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
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I am not alone in that I've had times of unemployment - unemployment is huge amongst disabled people. — Rosie Jones Copy Share Image
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I'm used to being alone in a quiet, isolated environment - I'm kind of a low-energy, low-vibration, low-stamina person to begin with - so… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
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