- If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company. Jean-Paul Sartre
- The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. Henrik Ibsen
- If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. Maxwell Maltz
- 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. Emily Carr
- Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. May Sarton
- All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Blaise Pascal
- As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone. Sienna Miller
- We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. Tennessee Williams
- 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. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. Pearl S. Buck
- Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington
- Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. Dag Hammarskjold
- Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Joseph Conrad