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. Related Definitions: Alone, As, Being, By, Condition, Depression, Disposition, Feeling, From, Human, Loneliness, Lonely, Love, Of, Resulting, Retirement, Road, Seclusion, Solitude, State, The, To, Unfrequented

Loneliness Quotations Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Mother Teresa The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. Mother Teresa Loneliness 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 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 Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. Woody Allen Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. Thomas Merton In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. John Steinbeck 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 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

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