Loneliness comes over me when I feel there is no reciprocity, that I can?t share the mess in my head with anyone. It overwhelms me when I have love to give and it?s rejected or pushed aside or ignored. I don?t know how I remedy loneliness?I think I keep offering until it is clearly futile, then I shut down completely - http://www.oxfordmuse.com/selfportrait/portrait102.html
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty - Mother Teresa
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone - Paul Tilich, http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/01/02/ave-atque-vale/#more-1948
Language created word "loneliness" to express pain of being alone. And the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone - Paul Tillich
Isolationism is the great fear after Iraq. Alas Iraq has discredited a great idea: the duty of involvement - Bernard-Henri L
I think everybody who has lived and worked in more than one country is going to wind up feeling permanently torn, feeling no place is entirely home. It's both a gain and a loss - Susan Neiman, http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2010/02/interview-obama-moral
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate - Albert Schweitzer
Be kind to everyone you meet. They all carry a heavy load - Elton Graham
Research suggests lonely people are at greater risk of developing illnesses, such as heart disease and certain cancers and that the effect on mortality of loneliness is comparable with that of smoking and drinking.
Despite living in an age of social networking, many people are now more lonely than ever, but most may be too ashamed to admit it.