Loneliness

"Yes, alone we are, deeply alone, and always, in store for us, a layer of loneliness even deeper. There is nothing we can do to dispose of that. No, loneliness shouldn't surprise us, as astonishing to experience as it may be. You can try turning yourself inside out, but all you are then is inside out and lonely instead of inside in and lonely(...) There is no protest to be lodged against loneliness - not all the bombing campaigns in history have made a dent in it. The most lethal of manmade explosives can't touch it. (...) Put your money on it, bet on it, worship it (...) bow down to the great god Loneliness!" (Philip Roth, American Pastoral)