No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.
The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.