Sara Zarr Quotes

I always thought I needed the support of someone in a long-term relationship to make me whole.

I don't ever want to have to need someone again - where you feel like, without them, you can't be yourself.

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

I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.

He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.

Alone I'm nothing.

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.

As much I can stay away from people, I remain happy.

I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

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

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

We're all in this alone.

Some people do better on their own. I don't.

I want somebody who's gonna need me.

Remember we're all in this alone.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.