There are two essential kinds of loneliness: that of not having found someone to love, and that of having been deprived of the one you did love. The first kind is worse. Nothing can compare to the loneliness of the soul in adolescence.
10 October 2017
The Loneliness of the Soul in Adolescence
Julian Barnes, Levels of Life (Toronto: Random House Canada, 2013), p. 111:
