Francois Rene de Chateaubriand Quotes

The cat will keep his side of the bargain. He will kill mice, and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just so long as they do not pull his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up on the Wet Wild trees or on the Wet Wild roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.

I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference with which she passes from the salon to the housetop. When we caress her, she stretches herself and arches her back responsively; but this is because she feels an agreeable sensation, not because she takes a silly satisfaction, like the dog, in faithfully loving a thankless master. The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?

Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Solitude is independence.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.

I didn't know how it was to be a bachelor. I never felt like one. I think it's a mental state.

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.

I have to do this my way.

I'm very happy alone.

It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.

I don't need anyone else, which is a great feeling, but also a depressing one.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.

I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.