Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

The line reframes loneliness not simply as deprivation but as a perceptual intensifier: solitude heightens attention to sensory detail and makes ordinary experiences—sunsets, night air—feel more vivid and charged. It suggests that emotional lack can sharpen aesthetic appreciation, because the solitary person projects feeling onto the world and notices subtleties that social distraction can dull. At the same time, the imagery (“special burn,” “smell better”) implies an ambivalence: loneliness is painful, but its pain can deepen one’s encounter with beauty. The quote thus treats solitude as a catalyst for heightened consciousness rather than merely a condition to escape.