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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

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

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