Edward Zwick Quotes

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

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

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way.

Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It's a rule that seems to work well for me.

He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

I don't need anyone else, which is a great feeling, but also a depressing one.

Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've always loved travelling around. A book in my back pocket, a diary, and a pen is all I need to call any place home.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

When I was a student in the '60s, I dreamt of making a house 7 feet by 7 feet, as a dream of freedom, of self-moderation.

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

… splendid isolation

Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load, Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code; I worry not for what exists, nor fret for what is lost, I breathe with extreme ease, and live at very little cost.

Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.

I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.

When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!

Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.

And when you don't have to talk to the person next to you, that's real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.

you can survive only if nothing is necessary to you

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.