Life Quotes

My alone doesn't always feel good, but I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude

~ Introvertly Bubbly

Writing is a solitary occupation.

~ Bernard Cornwell

Sometime I wonder why I walk alone on this cold, windy road. Maybe I have no one to love or no one love me at all?

~ Ishmael Emmanuel Balfour

He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts.

~ Hermann Hesse

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

~ Orson Welles

Losing myself is so second nature to me by now that I'm always surprised when it's noticed by others.

~ Amy Wilensky

I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They're just not around at the moment.

~ Cynthia Hand

When the world makes me feel like I am alone, love reminds me otherwise.

~ Steve Maraboli

I don’t care too much about talking, but I don’t like being alone.

~ Ida Løkås

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there. We become like mushrooms, living in the dark, with poop up to our chins. If you want to know only what you already know, you're dying. You're saying: Leave me alone; I don't mind this little rathole. It's warm and dry. Really, it's fine.When nothing new can get in, that's death. When oxygen can't find a way in, you die. But new is scary, and new can be disappointing, and confusing - we had this all figured out, and now we don't.New is life.

~ Anne Lamott

She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.

~ Candace Bushnell

Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you're 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written, or you didn't go swimming in those warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It's going to break your heart. Don't let this happen.

~ Anne Lamott

Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.

~ Xiaolu Guo

Its better to regrets what you did, than regret what you didn't do.

~ William Nolan

Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

I wish my life were a movie and I could take it into the editing room and totally cut this part out. And some other parts. Some other parts definitely need to be cut.

~ Susane Colasanti

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

~ Oscar Wilde

At the crossroad in my life, I didn't know which way to go. I just mindlessly choose a random direction... then, after regretting my decision I tried to retrace my steps. However, without even realizing it the sun had already set.

~ Nobuyuki Fukumoto

Because the one who wishes it – isn’t the one who, still untouched by the future, stands at the crossroads. Instead, it is the one marked by the future become past who wants to go back to the past, to revoke the irrevocable. And would he want to revoke it if he hadn’t suffered it?

~ Pascal Mercier

It is regret for the absence of his loved one which causes a mourner to grieve: yet it is clear that this in itself is bearable enough; for we do not weep at their being absent or intending to be absent during their lifetime, although when they leave our sight we have no more pleasure in them. What tortures us, therefore, is an idea.

~ Seneca

Look forward. Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life.

~ Prentice Mulford

There is much to be said for cherry blossoms, but they seem so flighty. They are so quick to run off and leave you. And then just when your regrets are the strongest the wisteria comes into bloom, and it blooms on into the summer. There is nothing quite like it. Even the color is somehow companionable and inviting.

~ Murasaki Shikibu

The only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldy enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.

~ Ted Hughes

I've seen so many versions of you. With me. Without me. Artist. Teacher. Graphic designer. But it's all, in the end, just life. We see it macro, like one big story, but when you're in it, it's all just day-to-day, right? And isn't that what you have to make your peace with?

~ Blake Crouch

Death changes everyone....It changes the way you think, the way you feel, and the way you live your life. Sometimes it makes you thankful for what you have, but more often than not, it makes you regret what you've lost.

~ Tara Sivec

I refuse to live a life of regret. I refuse to hope things will get better in the future when I have complete control over making them the best possible right here and now. We have one life-and none of us knows how long our life will be or what will becomme of it. The possibilities are truly infinite.

~ Connor Franta

Those who refuse to grow, those who only finish school and call it quits regret through life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I refuse to suffer the torment of regret that comes with living a “what if” life.

~ Steve Maraboli

When I am running I inhabit and exit my body in the same moment. I bear witness to the harshest of physical sensations, even while I feel myself flying free and away. I do not want to remember what has happened to me. I do not want to reflect on the past. I can't in a way. I'm not made for regrets.

~ Carrie Snyder

I refuse to suffer the torment of regret that comes from living a what if life.

~ Steve Maraboli

To regret your soul is to regret your past.

~ Claire North

Having regrets is proof of being alive.

~ Nobuyuki Fukumoto

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

~ A.c. Grayling

It takes courage to own up your actions that hurt others, to look Into the eye and to mean the sorry, To accept the mistake and not deny, all of this needs courage.

~ Mansi Soni

I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I don't have teeth anymore.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?Easy—I’d be at home, medicating myself into a monotone. Drowning my sorrows in video games. Working shifts at Smart Aid. Dying inside, day by day, from regret.

~ Ransom Riggs

Because any guilt the sizeof a speck of dust, or shame,can crush even the best of men,in mountains of weight

~ Phil Volatile

I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy.

~ Anna Maxted

Don’t choose to walk the well-worn path to regret.

~ Steve Maraboli