The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.