Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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