Definition of Loneliness

Loneliness

The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.

The state of being unfrequented by human beings; as, the loneliness of a road.

Love of retirement; disposition to solitude.

A feeling of depression resulting from being alone.

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Loneliness Quotations

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.
Michael Jackson

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry Miller

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Thomas Merton

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
Albert Schweitzer

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt Vonnegut

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
Whitney Houston

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
Edward Gibbon

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
Franz Kafka

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
Henry A. Kissinger

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Norman Cousins

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Eric Hoffer

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
Buffalo Bill

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
Anton Chekhov

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc

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

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
Joss Whedon

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
David Foster Wallace

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
Dag Hammarskjold

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold

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Loneliness Translations

loneliness in French is solitude
loneliness in German is Alleinsein, Einsamkeit
loneliness in Italian is solitudine
loneliness in Latin is infrequentia, solitudo
loneliness in Swedish is ensamhet

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