Home » Quote » Sylvia Plath » „Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.“ „Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.“ — Sylvia Plath Related quotes „Alone, adj. In bad company.“ — Ambrose Bierce „We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.“ — Hunter S. Thompson „Even in love, people betray themselves. And when you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. I would say a great part of human history is a history of self-betrayal and betrayal of others.“ — Isaac Bashevis Singer „We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.“ — Helen Keller „If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.“ — Jean Paul Sartre „That’s precisely what the founders left us: the power to adapt to changing times. They left us the keys to a system of self-government – the tool to do big and important things together that we could not possibly do alone.“ — Barack Obama