Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
-John Powell
"Will the Real Me Please Stand Up?: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication"
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
-David Levithan
"Every You, Every Me"
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
