"No matter how close two people are, an infinite distance separates them"

"No matter how close each of us becomes to another, there remains a final, unbridgeable gap; each of us enters existence alone and must depart from it alone. The existential conflict is thus the tension between our awareness of our absolute isolation and our wish for contact, for protection, our wish to be part of a larger whole" (Irvin Yalom, Existential Psychology (1980) p. 9).