Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Quotations
Loneliness
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
-Eda LeShan
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The Angel's Game"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
