Markus Zusak Quotes

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.

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

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

We're all in this alone.

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.

Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.

I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book..." and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)

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.

Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the wood Others may decieve you You decide what's good You decide alone But no one is alone

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

In the end you have only you.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.

When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.