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

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

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

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

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

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.

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

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.