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

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

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

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

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

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

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.