Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
Quotations
Loneliness
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
-Lois Lowry
"The Giver"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
-Jarod Kintz
"This Book is Not for Sale"
It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.
-Mizu Sahara
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 tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
-Alan Lightman
"Einstein's Dreams"
