Robert Mankoff Quotes

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.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

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.

We walk alone in the world.

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

I'm an only child, and I don't mind being alone.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

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.

Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

I guess it really is just me, myself and all my millions.

That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that my two greatest needs and desires - smoking cigarettes and plotting revenge - are basically solitary pursuits.

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.

In the end you have only you.

Solitude is un-American.

Solitude is independence.