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
Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
"The Eternal Now"
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
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
-Tahereh Mafi
"Shatter Me"
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"
