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

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

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

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

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

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

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

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.