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
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"
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
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
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
