Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality...

dropping ones illusions, making contact with the real.  You can only know what aloneness is when you drop your clinging, when you drop your dependency.  When your illusions drop, you are in touch with reality at last and you will never again be lonely, never again...

Excerpt from Awareness - The Perils And Opportunities Of Reality by Anthony deMello