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

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

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

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

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

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.

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

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

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.