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

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

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

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

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

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.

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.

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

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