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

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

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

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

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

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

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

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.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.