Mark Twain Quotes About Loneliness

• There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Lonely, Loneliness

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 11 (1916)

• Be good and you will be lonely.

  Mark Twain

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.247, Courier Corporation

• The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

  Mark Twain

  Lonely, Self Esteem, Loneliness

• Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

  Mark Twain

  Loneliness, Thinking, People

• Labor in loneliness is irksome.

  Mark Twain

  Loneliness, Labor

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.512, Velvet Element Books

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