Sarah J. Maas Quotes

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else.

Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.

I know where my bread is buttered, and for the most part, I'm better off doing my own thing.

I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.

No god save self, that is the way to live.

You do your own thing and you see if you survive.

I learned very soon to get along by myself.

I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn’t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.

The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.

We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

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.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

You can't rely on anything. At the end of the day, all you have is yourself.

I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.

If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

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'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

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.

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.