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

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

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

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

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

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

Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.