Home » Quote » Fernando Pessoa » „If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.“ „If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.“ — Fernando Pessoa Related quotes „Freedom is the possibility of isolation… If you can't live alone, you were born a slave.“ — Fernando Pessoa „Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.“ — Karl Lagerfeld „Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.“ — Friedrich Nietzsche „You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die.“ — Richard Bach „If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.“ — Paulo Coelho „Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson „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. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.“ — Hunter S. Thompson