Eating Alone Quotes

• For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Ice Cream, Mcdonalds, Ironic

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• Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Men, He Man, Beggar

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.15, Verso

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• We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

  Epicurus

  Thanksgiving, Food, Beer

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• For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating.

  Pablo Neruda

  Justice, Bakeries, Poverty

  Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner (2004). “The essential Neruda: selected poems”, p.139, City Lights Books

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• Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

  Francine Prose

  Reading, Elements, Eating

  Francine Prose (2012). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.9, Union Books

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• You never see a French person eating alone.

  Pierre Dukan

  Eating, Persons

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• The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays

  Stanley Elkin

  Holiday, Men, Peculiar

  Stanley Elkin (1967). “Criers & Kibitzers, Kibitzers & Criers”

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• Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.

  Hippocrates

  Health, Exercise, Science

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• Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Inspirational, Food, Animal

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• Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the heart, clawing at your insides. Hunger feels like pincers, like the bite of crabs; it burns, burns, and has no fur. Let us sit down soon to eat with all those who haven't eaten; let us spread great tablecloths, put salt in lakes of the world, set up planetary bakeries, tables with strawberries in snow, and a plate like the moon itself from which we can all eat. For now I ask no more than the justice of eating.

  Pablo Neruda

  Disappointment, Heart, Moon

  Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner (2004). “The essential Neruda: selected poems”, p.139, City Lights Books

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• I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.

  Thomas Keller

  Mom, Brother, Food

  Thomas Keller (2016). “Bouchon”, p.2, Artisan Books

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• I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

  William Wycherley

  Wife, Dull, Envied

  1675 The Country Wife, act 3, sc.2.

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• So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one without being in the middle of another -- anything to stop me from falling into the big, gaping void. You see, books fill the empty spaces. If I'm waiting for a bus, or am eating alone, I can always rely on a book to keep me company. Sometimes I think I like them even more than people. People will let you down in life. They'll disappoint you and hurt you and betray you. But not books. They're better than life.

  Marc Acito

  Hurt, Book, Fall

  Marc Acito (2009). “How I Paid for College: A Tale of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater (reissued)”, p.98, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I actually met Larson [Paine] on Larchmont in Los Angeles. He was eating and he stopped me because I was massaging my larynx. I was doing a show and trying to loosen up my throat. He had sort of this southern vibe about eating alone and talking to people. And it was funny because I had just having eaten with Larry O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Talking, People, Southern

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.

  Hippocrates

  Fall, Home, Exercise

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