Joseph Conrad Once Wrote:

Who knows what true loneliness is — not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. And as we strain to grasp things the things we desire, the things we think will make our lives better – money, popularity, fame. We ignore what truly matters. The simple things like friendship, family, love. The things we probably already had. And no one wants to end up lonely and sad. As Octavio Paz once wrote: solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being that knows he is alone.