The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. Mother Teresa
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. Norman Cousins
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. Dag Hammarskjold
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, Jr
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. Eric Hoffer
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. Eric Hoffer
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
The surest sign of age is loneliness. Amos Bronson Alcott
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence Thomas Wolfe
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. Thomas Wolfe
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. Paul Tournier
It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world’s progress has come out of such loneliness. Bruce Barton
Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness. Franz Grillparzer
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. Cyril Connolly