It is the fate of the genius to dwell alone.

La soledad es el estado propio del genio y del elegido.

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

Be good and you will be lonesome.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

Being alone means YOU ARE WITH YOURSELF.

To become solitary and simple in utter aloneness -- living wholly unconcerned about the multitude of worldly affairs, and abandoning and disentangling yourself from all things -- is to die. We are born alone; we die alone.

The great solitude of the individual is a hallmark of our times.

It is better to be alone than in bad company

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

The greater the spirit, the more one is alone.

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. When death sunders our nearest ties, alone we sit in the shadow of our affliction. Alike mid the greatest triumphs and darkest tragedies of life we walk alone. On the divine heights of human attainments, eulogized and worshiped as a hero or saint, we stand alone. In ignorance, poverty, and vice, as a pauper or criminal, alone we starve or steal; alone we suffer the sneers and rebuffs of our fellows; alone we are hunted and hounded through dark courts and alleys, in by-ways and highways; alone we stand in the judgment seat; alone in the prison cell we lament our crimes and misfortunes; alone we expiate them on the gallows. In hours like these we realize the awful solitude of individual life, its pains, its penalties, its responsibilities; hours in which the youngest and most helpless are thrown on their own resources for guidance and consolation. Seeing then that life must ever be a march and a battle, that each soldier must be equipped for his own protection, it is the height of cruelty to rob the individual of a single natural right.

Then, never less alone than when alone.