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

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

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

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

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

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

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.

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

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