Contentment in Solitude Quotes

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

I'm not really someone who's always out on the scene going places. I'm a homebody. That's just who I am.

I don't miss anything by being a bachelor. I don't know any happily married couples, not even my parents.

I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn’t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.

If we don't know how to be alone, we'll only know how to be lonely.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I'm glad I'm married, and I love my wife. But there's never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness.

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.