Steven Erikson Quotes

And... as long as they need me, it's easier to forget that I am alone.

The more you rely on what you need, the more you become that which you rely on.

I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him.

You fixed yourself. You didn’t need me.” “No, Sydney.” My voice was ragged. “I do need you. You have no idea how much I need you.

I wanted the world to sit back, listen up, and let me explain to it that when someone is sad and hopeless, the last thing they need to feel is that they are the only ones in the world with that feeling. So, if you feel sorry for someone, don't pretend to be happy. Don't pretend to care only about their problems.

Alone I'm nothing.

I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.

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

My mistake in my relationships has been to feel that I can do it all on my own: 'I don't need a man.' That is definitely a mistake. Women generally want to feel loved and appreciated. It's something that I am working on every day, trust me! It's a challenge for me to do that.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.

I think was overly empathetic for a while in my life.

How we need another soul to cling to.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

I really don't like that modern notion of 'I don't need anyone.' I see a lot of young women feeling they have to be that way, they have to be hard, in a way. And what does that bring them? They're just going to be lonesome. They're going to be, at best, lonesome and capable, at worst, lonesome and hard. And is that what we want? No.

My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then.

If you're understood in maybe, I don't know, 60% of your soul by your partner, that's fantastic. Don't expect that it's going to be 100%. Of course you will be lonely.

I cannot live alone.

I believe we all grow because we share our experiences and our problems. We all have our intimate times. Why not share them?