#loneliness

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

— Mother Teresa

#being

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#loss #yearning #being

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#deprivation #good #host #loneliness #youth

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#create #essential #i #keen #less

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#desire #escape #far #greater #intercourse

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

#cause #comrade #desires #difficult #easy

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#poverty #ultimate

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#loneliness #much #together

Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest. ↗

— Mike Norton

#bare #bloom #creative #creativity #cultivate

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. ↗

— Eugene O'Neill

#his #life #loneliness #man