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Bad Company Phone Case — Ambrose Bierce — Devil's Dictionary definition ALONE — matte black — front view
Bad Company Phone Case — Ambrose Bierce
Alone Phone Case--Ambrose Bierce
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Bad Company — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
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Bad Company — Bierce Devil's Dictionary Phone Case

Price$32.00

Ambrose Bierce spent decades assembling The Devil's Dictionary, publishing its sardonic definitions in newspapers before they were collected in 1906. The entry for ALONE is among its shortest — and most ruthless. Three words that do what most eulogies fail to do in three pages.

Ambrose Bierce

“ALONE, adj. In bad company.”

Three words. Written by a man who spent most of his life estranged from family, distant from contemporaries, and famously difficult to be close to. He published this in 1906, near the end of a long career of being exactly the kind of company most people found hard.

The entry is a reversal — a small one, and a complete one. It doesn’t console. It doesn’t say being alone is fine, actually. It says the alternative isn’t automatically better. You’ve been in a room full of people and felt more alone than you do right now. Bierce isn’t selling introversion. He’s describing a fact.

Every time you pick up your phone, you carry that fact in your pocket — and the clarity that comes with it.

The Design

The whole entry in four lines on matte black: ALONE, adj. at the top, the definition below it, the gold rule, then the source.

The brevity of the definition — three words, then nothing — does exactly what solitude does. It holds its ground and says nothing more than it needs to.

About This Case

  • Tough dual-layer construction — flexible TPU inner layer, hard polycarbonate outer shell
  • Raised edges protect the screen and camera
  • Induction charging compatible — works with most wireless devices
  • Available for iPhone 11 through iPhone 17 Pro Max
  • Care note: Keep away from liquids with high alcohol content and prolonged direct sunlight to preserve the design.

Who It’s For

The deliberate introvert. The person who chooses their company carefully and doesn’t apologize for the quiet. The one who’s made peace with being alone — because they’ve seen the alternative.

Carry the alone.

Ambrose Bierce, in Plain English

  • Lived: 1842–1914(?), one of the most solitary major figures in American letters
  • Lost a son, estranged from his wife, outlived most of his contemporaries — and wrote better the more alone he became
  • His Civil War stories remain among the most unflinching in the language; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge still surprises readers who think they know how it ends
  • He didn't romanticize solitude — he diagnosed it. The ALONE entry isn't consolation; it's a mirror aimed at everyone in the room
  • Walked into Mexico at 71, alone, and was never seen again
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Bad Company Phone Case — Ambrose Bierce — Devil's Dictionary definition ALONE — matte black — front view
Bad Company — Bierce Devil's Dictionary Phone Case Price$32.00