"the lonely crowd"

"He [man] is not only alone; he also knows that he is alone..."

"But safety, as the Cross shows, does not exclude from suffering." 

"'Happiness,' as defined by the world, means exemption from suffering."

"Suffering is a wilderness experience. We feel very much alone and helpless, cut off from others who cannot know how we suffer. [...] When we are hungry, cut off from help, and alone, the enemy comes to meet us [...] In the wilderness of loneliness we are terribly vulnerable."
- Elisabeth Elliot, Loneliness