To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

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

Still and all why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do care about many of the things you care about although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

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

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone but for the development of his self.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

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

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

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone let him be where he will.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

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

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

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

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone alone in patches alone in groups alone in races even alone in genders.

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

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