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
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
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"
Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
-Allison Burnett
"Undiscovered Gyrl"
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
-Henry Rollins
"The Portable Henry Rollins"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
