“They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.”

“How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

“Thought alone is eternal.”

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) English statesman and poet

“How gladly would I wander through some strange and savage land,
The lasso at my saddle-bow, the rifle in my hand,
A leash of gallant mastiffs bounding by my side,
And, for a friend to love, the noble horse on which I ride!
Alone, alone—yet not alone, for God is with me there,
The tender hand of Providence shall guide me everywhere,
While happy thoughts and holy hopes, as spirits calm and mild,
Shall fan with their sweet wings the hermit-hunter of the wild!”

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet

“The poet walked alone in a cold late rain,
And thought his grief was like the crying of sea-birds;
For his lover was dead, he never would love again.”

Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) American novelist and poet

“One human thought alone is worth more than the entire world, hence God alone is worthy of it.”

John of the Cross (1542–1591) Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint

“With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

“There is no reality for me but pure thought. Minds alone are interesting.”

Maurice Barrès (1862–1923) French novelist

“All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another, the power of thought, accompanied by perception, which is the awakening of thought by the effects of external objects upon the senses.”

Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871) British mathematician, philosopher and university teacher (1806-1871)