Alex Garland Quotes

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.

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

We're all in this alone.

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.

I think I'm still a lone wolf, internally. And I always will be.

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.

The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

In the end you have only you.

Alone I'm nothing.

Solitude is un-American.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Solitude is independence.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

I prefer to work alone and do everything alone, even today.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Remember we're all in this alone.

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.

Because I was an only child, I don't like many people around, and that's why I don't have any servants.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

I like my life alone.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

The strong man is strongest when alone.