31 Quotes About Eating Alone

Experiencing loneliness can be traumatic for many. There is nothing worse for some than being left to eat alone. Here are some quotes about eating alone that highlight some of these difficulties.

“By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity.”

“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.”

“Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.”

“Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations… eating with friends, the service, the ambience.”

“Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.”

“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.”

“Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed… I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.”

“Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.”

“For an adult, eating alone at McDonald’s is admitting a kind of defeat.”

“I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.”

“I don’t stop eating when I’m full. The meal isn’t over when I’m full. It’s over when I hate myself.”

“I found that people like rules, and I love to tell people what to do. It’s not rocket science when it comes to weight loss. It’s about eating a little less and moving a little bit more.”

“I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.”

“I like food. I like eating. And I don’t want to deprive myself of good food.”

“I love food. I’m a big food person. I’m really passionate about eating good food all the time.”

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

“In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff – surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street.”

“Just like keeping a healthy diet is important to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, eating the right foods is just as important for getting the most out of your workout.”

“Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist.”

“My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.”

“Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays.”

“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”

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

“When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.”

“You never see a French person eating alone.”

There are various ways you can approach your life when you find yourself being left to eat alone.