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

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

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

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

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

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

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