“I suffer greatly from the fear of the complete isolation that threatens me now. I cannot see how I can bear this life. I see it as a life in which every day I have to fear the evening that brings me only dull sadness.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Nachlass, MS 125 (9 April 1942)
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