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

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

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

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

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.

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

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.