I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

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

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

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

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

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

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

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.