“ Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are, Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words, Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you, Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart. ”

“ You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long. ”

“ Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”

“ Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. ”

“ Inventors don't have time for married life. ”

“ Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. ”

“ I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best. ”

“ 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. ”

“ It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far ”

“ If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight. ”

“ Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone. ”

“ How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. ”