Live alone Quote by Carson McCullers Download Open image “Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.” — Carson McCullers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Live alone Torture
You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way. — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
To live without you, only that would be torture." "A day alone, only that would be death. — Charles Addams Copy Share Image
I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great. — Danielle Fishel Copy Share Image
I really hate to live alone but its better than being hurt again & again. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
“Because things accumulate around your name," said Berenice. "You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do things, so that soon the name begins to have meaning. Things have accumulated around the name, if it is bad and you have a bad reputation, then you just can't jump out… — Carson McCullers Copy Share
It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Love is a joint experience between two persons—but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries. Often the beloved is only a stimulus for all the stored-up love which has lain quiet… — Carson McCullers Copy Share
“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Son, do you know how love should be begun?" The boy sat small and listening and still. Slowly he shook his head. The old… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses. A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor… — Carson McCullers Copy Share
Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose when she was in her coffin, to make certain there was no mistake; for if a breath of life was left in her, she would sit up and eat, but if she smelled the hopping-john, and… — Carson McCullers Copy Share
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them . . . She thought a long time and kept hitting her thighs with her fists. Her face fell like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot… — Carson McCullers Copy Share
“I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone,I felt… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I live alone so I always just eat out. When I'm in another relationship, then maybe we'll start cooking together. — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
“In the end, it’s true, we each must die alone, but the love and friendship we share with one another show that we do… — Henry Bushkin Copy Share Image
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Sometimes special people come into your life only to teach you how to live alone without them. Sad but true. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing? — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find… — Harville Hendrix Copy Share Image
“Like a great ship, this season has run aground. Dawn and dusk alternate at an old man's pace. I live alone in an area… — Ge Fei Copy Share Image
“Used to live alone in a tomb I made my own, but now I’ve gone and given up my coat. And it’s cold outside,… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
Human beings are not meant to live alone. There is a fundamental biological imperative that propels you and every organism on this planet to… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
