Henry David Thoreau Lonely Quotations

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray?

I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?