Perspectives on solitude/loneliness ...

"no man is an island" John Donne

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.” Emerson

"Laugh alone and the world thinks you're an idiot.” unknown

"He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude” Aristotle

“With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.”- Eric Hoffer