I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

I can be by myself because I'm never lonely; I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.