If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.
People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
If we don't know how to be alone, we'll only know how to be lonely.
Contrary to the image of a neurotic man created in some quarters, I feel very much at peace with myself.
If you just kind of let yourself stay alone and be by yourself, the negative, it is just not going to help you.
Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.
Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.
you'll never be lonely if you learn to be friend your self
You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.
I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.
My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.
I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.
What good is sitting all alone in your room?
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.
He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
