Sophie Kinsella Quotes

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

It's true that being in an individual sport, you have to be a little bit selfish.

I sometimes feel like it's my world and everyone is just visiting.

I'm used to living alone, and I like it that way. You become so selfish living alone...I'd make a terrible husband anyway.

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human being. I think being in the public eye and growing up, it's made me quite selfish in some respects. I can be extremely generous with friends, but in relationships I can be quite mean in terms of my time and my affections. I take people for granted, and I'm trying not to do that.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!

Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

I'm very big on doing my own thing.

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.

I am definitely an individual.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

I got no entourage in real life. Solo. I go solo. No entourage.

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

I am my own party.