From my quote journal.
"Let me tell you something very important," said Meredith patiently. "It is no new thing to be lonely. It comes to all of us sooner or later. Friends die, families die. Lovers and husbands, too. We get old, we get sick. And the last and greatest loneliness is death, which I am facing now. There are no pills to sure that. No formulas to charm it away. It's a condition of men that we can't escape. If we try to retreat from it, we end in a darker hell — ourselves. But if we face it, if we remember that there are a million others like us, if we try to reach out to cofort them and not ourselves, we find in the end that we are lonely no longer. We are in a new family, the family of man, whose Father is God Almighty ...
Morris West, The Devil's Advocate
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