If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Quotations
Loneliness
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
-Eda LeShan
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
-Wendell Berry
"A Place on Earth"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
-Karl Lagerfeld
The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
-Joseph Gordon Levitt
"The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1"
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
