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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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