Loneliness

Loneliness

Loneliness is a complex and usually unpleasant feeling in which a person feels a strong sense of emptiness and solitude. The causes of loneliness are varied, but it can be affected by social, mental, emotional, and spiritual factors. It is a natural phenomenon, since humans are social creatures by nature. Loneliness has also been described as social pain — a psychological mechanism meant to alert an individual of isolation and motivate him/her to seek social connections.

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Famous quotes containing the word loneliness:

    And I alone of all mankind
    Were left in loneliness behind.
    William Barnes (1801–1886)

    In Africa I had indeed found a sufficiently frightful kind of loneliness but the isolation of this American ant heap was even more shattering.
    Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)

    There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)