Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
Quotations
Loneliness
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
-D. H. Lawrence
"Lady Chatterley's Lover"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
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"
Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
-Allison Burnett
"Undiscovered Gyrl"
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
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"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
