James Salter Quotes

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 one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

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

As a child, I spent a lot of time alone. I used to sit in my closet with one cracker. I'd pretend that I was on the North Pole freezing to death, and I had to somehow survive on this one tiny cracker.

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.

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.'

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

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.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

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

There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

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.

There are many ways to die in bed, but the best way is not alone.

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

I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.

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

I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.

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.

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

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.