Remember we’re all in this alone.

Tomlin’s line is a compact paradox: it sounds like a call to solidarity (“we’re all in this”) but undercuts itself with “alone.” The humor turns on that reversal, capturing a modern tension between communal rhetoric and private experience. Read straight, it suggests that even when circumstances are shared—social pressures, work, politics, aging—each person ultimately confronts life’s choices, fears, and consequences individually. Read satirically, it pokes at slogans of togetherness that can feel hollow, reminding us that empathy doesn’t erase isolation. The quote’s staying power comes from balancing bleakness with wit: it acknowledges loneliness without melodrama, and invites a more honest, self-reliant kind of connection.

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