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:

    “What makes loneliness an anguish
    Is not that I have no one to share my burden,
    But this:
    I have only my own burden to bear.”
    —Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961)

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