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When everyone leaves you it’s loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it’s solitude.

Alfred Polgar

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

Dag Hammarskjold

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

Maya Angelou

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

Henry Rollins

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good

John Milton

Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

Kahlil Gibran

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

Mother Teresa

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

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

Joan Collins

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

Mother Teresa

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

Paul Tillich

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

May Sarton

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

Anthony De Mello

Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

Dag Hammarskjold

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Max Ehrmann

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Joseph Conrad

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

Yousuf Karsh

Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.

Floyd W. Tomkins

You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.

Jaesse Tyler

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

Eric Hoffer

Loneliness the clearest of crystal insight into your own soul, its the fear of one's own self that haunts the lonely.

Keith Haynie

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

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

William Arthur Ward

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