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

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

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

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

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

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

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

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

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