Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
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"
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
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions.
-Sabah Carrim
"Humeirah"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The Angel's Game"
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
-Wendell Berry
"A Place on Earth"