It's not easy living alone but I've done it before.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.

When you are living alone then you tend to take life casually.

It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy.

If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

I was living alone, so I'd get quite lonely and running became a way to combat my loneliness and de-stress.

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.

At 16, I got housing benefit, and I had my own flat in an old woman's house. I was the only 16-year-old I knew living alone.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

'SNL' is really hard to do when you're single and living alone. And then it's pretty tough when you're married, because you don't see your spouse.

In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau.

Initially, I was scared of living alone in a big city like Mumbai, which is nothing like Bangalore. I'm more comfortable now; it feels like a home away from home.

There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it's clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone.

I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

You want to compete against the best players and that year at Atletico helped me a lot to become what I am now. It was difficult because it was the first time I was living alone but I think I adapted quickly to a new life.

There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found in Mesopotamia and China mention people living alone in the woods. It's this primal fascination that exists across all cultures and all times.

When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: 'Who is doing it?' Trends break out because they're based on real demographics, like there being fewer nuclear families or more people living alone. If 10 people in Shoreditch are doing it, it's a 10-minute fad.

I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.

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