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

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

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

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

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

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

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