“the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.”

“I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.”

“What makes loneliness an anguish
Is not that I have no one to share my burden,
But this:
I have only my own burden to bear.”

“I cannot bear a mother's tears.”
Nequeam lacrimas perferre parentis.

“I think I prefer to be a Bear," said Big Bru. "I was born a Bear, and I know a Bear's ways. So I am satisfied to live as a Bear lives.”

“I can live with the Mysteries; it is the Explanations I cannot bear.”

“I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar.”

“I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.”

“Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.”

“People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.”