When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
capacity, feeling lonely, alone, feeling
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
real progress lies in learning to be wrong
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
misfortunes spring, 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.
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.