“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.”

“Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.”

“If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.”

“Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?”

“How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.”

“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”

“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”

“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")”

“We would be much better off getting rid of the psychology that is causing so much misery than looking for chemicals that make us feel better but do nothing to solve our loneliness.”

“We're not a family. We're the opposite of a family. We're people so lonely that when we're together we make a black hole of loneliness and everything else gets sucked down into it and is never seen again.”