Ambrose Bierce · The Devil’s Dictionary
“ALONE, adj. In bad company.”
| Source | Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (1906) |
| Date | 1906 |
| Wording | Exact |
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About This Line
One of the dictionary’s shortest entries, and one of its most personal — written by a man estranged from his family and famously hard to be close to. He defines being alone not as emptiness but as bad company: yourself.
Why We Carry This Line
It made me laugh, and then it didn’t. That’s the whole reason it’s here.
