“You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.”
“One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.”
“What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?”
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
“No one should die alone.”
“Being alone is best. I mean, it's true, isn't it? In the end you'll be absolutely alone; therefore, being alone is natural. If you accept that, nothing bad can happen. That's why I shut myself away in my six-mat one-room apartment.”