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

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

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

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.

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

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

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

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