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Definition of Loneliness

Loneliness

  1. The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.
  2. The state of being unfrequented by human beings; as, the loneliness of a road.
  3. Love of retirement; disposition to solitude.
  4. A feeling of depression resulting from being alone.

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

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

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
Naomi Campbell

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten
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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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