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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything.

Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.

There's a confidence and sense of self that comes with age that I didn't anticipate.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great.

I think when you're younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age.