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Loneliness is an emotion state in which a person or animal experiences a powerful feeling of emptiness and isolation. Loneliness is more than the feeling of wanting company or wanting to do something with another person. Loneliness is a feeling of being cut off, disconnected and alienated from other people. The lonely person may find it difficult or even impossible to have any form of meaningful human contact. Lonely people often experience a subjective sense of inner emptiness or hollowness,... full article at wikipedia

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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. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.	Joseph Conrad
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.	Thomas Carlyle
It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath --as terrible as you like --but a mask.	Katherine Mansfield
If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.	Jean-Paul Sartre
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.	James Anthony Froude
When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.	Mother Teresa
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man --the one he used to be.	Cesare Pavese
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.	Tennessee Williams
Of my friends I am the only one left.	Terence
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.	Arthur Schopenhauer
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