Robert Cormier Quotes

We're all in this alone.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

To be adult is to be alone.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

We're all alone in this world.

All human beings are lonely at the core. We come alone, we go alone.

We walk alone in the world.

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Solitude is independence.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

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

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

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

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

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.

A man by himself is in bad company.

My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.