solitude

"There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?"

"I never said, "I want to be alone." I only said, "I want to be let alone! There is all the difference."

"What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you."

"Alain de Botton interview: "The City as a Cure for Loneliness"

"Rather a stone, but to be alone!"

"A man is a lonely thing."

"I am come to a tavern alone to eat a steak, after which I shall return to the office."

"Utility alone is the cause of value."

"Tulsidas alone, though the most famous of them all has no disciples that are called after his name."

"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."

"To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well."

"It all came together then, you see — all the various isolated bits — and made a coherent pattern."

"Solitude is good, desolation is bad. I have experienced both."

"More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn't alone."

"I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely."

"According to Cato the Elder, Scipio Africanus was wont to say that he was never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less lonely than when alone."

"344. Who eates his cock alone must saddle his horse alone."

"Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you."

"Manning lobs it, Burress alone, TOUCHDOWN New York!"

"An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one."