Mark Cohen, too, knows the ignominy and loneliness of the long-distance comic.

Until this time, Cleo had not really known what loneliness meant.

This man knew loneliness as intimately as she did, only he hid it a whole lot better.

"You don't really know loneliness unless you do a year or two with a one-night band."

She knew what fear was, and loneliness, and she ached for him.

I have seldom in my life known loneliness, even when I was most solitary.

They knew the fear and loneliness of the newcomer.

Futurists say that one day supercomputers will know loneliness, lobby for legal rights, and learn how to feel.

Do you think human beings are meant to know the bitterness and loneliness I knew in my last mortal years?

For Peter Lake, who had never before known loneliness, the city was now empty.