B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.”
“Being alive is not a miracle, feeling alive is.”
“Being alive is sign of strength!”
“Being alive is so extraordinary I don’t know why people limit it to riches, pride, security—all of those things life is built on. People miss so much because they want money and comfort and pride, a house and a job to pay for the house. And they have to get a car. You can’t see anything from a car. It’s moving too fast. People take vacations. That’s their reward—the vacation. Why not the life?”
“Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.”
Source: Ceremony
“Being ‘all about myself’ is the surest way that I can end up being ‘all by myself.”
“Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea. Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea?”
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
Source: Second Treatise of Government
“Being allowed and encouraged to experience joy, pleasure and aliveness builds our capacity to be sensual.”
“Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.”
“Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)”
“Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.”
Source: Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir
“Being alone at night is scary sometimes.”
“Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.”
“Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.”
“Being alone feels more honest.”
Source: Loose Girl
“Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.”
“Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves and is ready to release what lies deeper.”
Source: Diaries, 1910-1923
“Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.”
“Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.”
“Being alone in a marriage is worse than being alone.”
Source: The Christmas Cookie Club
“Being alone in an aeroplane for even so short a time as a night and a day, irrevocably alone, with nothing to observe but your instruments and your own hands in semi-darkness, nothing to contemplate but the size of your small courage, nothing to wonder about but the beliefs, the faces, and the hopes rooted in your mind - such an experience can be as startling as the first awareness of a stranger walking by your side at night. You are the stranger.”
Source: West with the Night
“Being alone in nature is another way to feel the joy of beauty - and oneness with a greater whole.”
“Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.”
Source: How to Be Alone
“Being alone in the dark - surrounded by silence, frightful. Thoughts breathe a life of their own; twisting and turning on each other as enemies unto themselves.”
Source: In Anwar's Care: Reborn Legacy
“Being alone" is a state while "Loneliness"... is just a state of mind.”
Source: A Car Fell on My F*cking Head, Dude
“Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person.”
“Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.”
“Being alone is best. I mean, it's true, isn't it? In the end you'll be absolutely alone; therefore, being alone is natural. If you accept that, nothing bad can happen. That's why I shut myself away in my six-mat one-room apartment.”
“Being alone is better than being in bad company, yet being in good company is better than being alone”
“Being alone is better than being with those who don't match your vibe.”
“Being alone is better than being your whore.”
“Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.”
Source: Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays
“Being alone is blissful when you want to...It's terrible when you are forced to..!”
“Being alone is great for all the small stuff. Seeing whatever you want at the movies. Eating in that weird way you can only eat by yourself. Going on vacation wherever you like. Being alone is ideal for eavesdropping, for really relaxing, and at times for forcing me to be sociable.”
Source: Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else
“Being alone is more painful than getting hurt.”
Source: One Piece Vol. 87 : Sans Pitié
“Being alone is not the same as being on your own.”
“Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.”
“Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.”
“Being alone is supposed to be an issue for people such as me, but I have to say I find it deeply satisfying. Human company is necessary at times, I admit, but it is almost irksome in one way or another.”
Source: How the Penguins Saved Veronica
“Being alone is that sense of abject isolation in the midst of our most grievous pain. Yet, if the former is swept away by the presence of God, then the latter stands ready to be healed by the hand of God.”
“Being alone is very difficult.”
“Being alone isn’t the worst thing. It’s okay to be lonely. I can deal with loneliness. We can’t have everything. I can’t have everything.”
Source: I'm Thinking of Ending Things
“Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.”
“Being alone means there is no one else in this world”
“Being alone never bothered me back then. I'd step out into my yard at any hour with a cold beer and a feeling like I could walk as far as I'd like and be just fine, nobody to hurt me, nobody I could use to hurt myself.”
Source: Black Light
“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
“Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.”
“Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.”
“Being alone,” she started, “isn’t exactly something I’m good at doing. Every time I try to be alone—even when I know that someone I know isn’t too far away—I start... panicking, I guess.” Caroline stopped to take a breath, feeling like what she was saying was the most draining conversation she had ever had in her life. “So, when I come out here, I can convince myself that I’m fine. I can almost get it to where I’ll believe that I can function like a normal human being because if I can go to another state and be alone, I should be able to do anything.”
Source: All the Little Things