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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.