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

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

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

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

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

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

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

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

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

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