Robyn Davidson Quotes

When I grew up, there were common patterns to people's lives. Now everybody is just making it up as they go along.

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

I don't care about a social life.

I tell you that the new age has dawned, the age of holy anarchy.

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, / He travels the fastest who travels alone.

In the end, I was the only one with any anarchy left in me.

Living in lawlessness gives you lawlessness.

Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who prefer loneliness to the bickerings and constraints of heterosexual marriage, even such a woman who is a freak in our society needs a home... The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. "Guess what? I'm a worker.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.

We walk alone in the world.

I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.

The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.

Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been heard tumbling and tossing, as the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason, and mounted one on top of another, and lunged and plunged in the darkness or the daylight (for night and day, month and year ran shapelessly together) in idiot games, until it seemed as if the universe were battling and tumbling, in brute confusion and wanton lust aimlessly by itself.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is NOT a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.

I am what I am,' Salander said 'I ran away from everything and everybody. I should have said goodbye.

The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence, and the other is disorder or chaos. The popular conception of anarchism is on the one hand bomb-throwing and terrorism, and on the other hand no rules, no regulations, no discipline, everybody does what they want, confusion, etc. That is why there is a reluctance to use the term anarchism.

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.