It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
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.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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.
I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.