It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

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

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

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

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

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

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

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

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

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