Life’s an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Carr’s remark compresses a bleak existential insight into plain speech: solitude is not only the condition of birth and death, but an intensified experience within life itself. The quote suggests that living entails a continuous awareness of separateness—of consciousness sealed within the self—made sharper by the presence of others and the longing to be understood. The comparison implies that death’s solitude may be simpler or more absolute, whereas life’s loneliness is complicated by desire, memory, and social expectation. Read alongside Carr’s reputation for independence and emotional candor, the line can be taken as both personal confession and a general statement about the human condition.