Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

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

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

In the end you have only you.

Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

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

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

I always thought, 'I'm on my own, and that's the way it should be.'

I can't be alone.

I don't have the best family life. I'm not going to have a sob story and be like, my parents abandoned me, because they didn't. But they also are not that present. When I'm alone, I'm alone. I don't have anybody to call, and so I have to create meaning from myself.

The majority of decisions, I've always taken by myself.

When you grow up without a brother or sister, you tend to see things just through your own eyes. You have friends and everything, but you spend most of your time watching TV or sat in a room making decisions about your life on your own.

I think a large part of being human centers on the state of being alone, and we try to mitigate that in so many ways.

I'm going to make decisions that I think are best for me and my family. So, when I make these decisions, of course I'm going to ask people for advice, but at the end of the day, Brandon Jennings makes the decisions. And I feel like the decisions that I've made so far have been successful.

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

You're all you've got.

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

Decision-making is lonely.