Jacques Derrida Quotes

We're all in this alone.

I'm so accustomed to being alone.

I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.

I don't belong to anyone.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

We're all alone in this world.

We behave as if being alone were a problem.

I sometimes feel like it's my world and everyone is just visiting.

I've never been super close to family. I've never relied on anyone.

Radical individualism can be very sad.

All human beings are lonely at the core. We come alone, we go alone.

The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.

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.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

Alone I'm nothing.

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

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

Solitude is un-American.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

Solitude is independence.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.