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

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

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

Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.

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

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

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

I restore myself when I'm alone.

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

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.