The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.

I find it wholesome to be alone the better part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.

You may live a long while with some people, and be on friendly terms with them, and never once speak openly with them from your soul.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Isolation breeds conceit.

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

Solitude can be frightening because it invites us to meet a stranger we think we may not want to know - ourselves.

One of the advantages of living alone is that you don't have to wake up in the arms of a loved one.

When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.