True loneliness is never the paltry, shallow and self-pitying game most of us play, but the cruel comprehension of solitude with neither cure nor hope of salvation.
@Gotterdammerung I see what you're saying, it's weird how lonliness seems to cut across people in different ways - everyone seems to have a different understanding of it
maybe that's the point
@skells some of us can work alone for long hours. And some of us are never lonely when alone, because we aren't terrible company.
That said, we can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.