Mostly I stay at home from the morning until 5 P.M., and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home. I like to be alone.Karl Lagerfeld
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.Plutarch
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.Arthur Schopenhauer
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.Lucius Annaeus Seneca