“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.”– Jean de la Bruyere Related Quotes “It helps to be able to be alone. ‘Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don’t do that. Ask my ex-wife.”– Dirk Benedict “What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.”– Philip Zimbardo “He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.”– Baltasar Gracian