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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 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

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

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot

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

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

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

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



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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