Thomas De Quincey Quotes

Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. You were born alone, even if you were born conjoined. And you die alone, unable to bring a single person with you.

We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

From birth to death we are alone.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.

Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.

Eventually, we all end up alone.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with.

I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it. Now it is necessary for me, as it is necessary for all men, to die in this same loneliness, and I know that there is no help for it.

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.