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

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

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

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.

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

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

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

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

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

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