loneliness on Poverty

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

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

God—Father, Son and Spirit; You are a God of compassion and love. Like the Israelites in the wilderness, we’ve known Your love, and experienced Your care and provision. Repeatedly You’ve answered our ...

Administrators of one of the largest hospitals in America cite loneliness as a major reason for overcrowded emergency rooms. Parkland Hospital of Dallas, Texas, made this startling discovery as they w...

Good and Gracious God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: we come to You as an impatient people filled with a multitude of desires and needs. We yearn for simple things--the arrival of warm weather, enough...

The greatest dis-ease facing humanity right now is our profound and painful sense of disconnection.

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neigh...

In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable, we learn that ultimately in this world there is no finished symphony.

During my years caring for patients, the most common pathology I saw was not heart disease or diabetes; it was loneliness.

“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”

The lusts of the flesh reveal the loneliness of the soul.

Sometimes we become so lonely, we'll do whatever we can to have some social interaction. Vulgar and with a quick wit, Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) was a significant short-story writer and social cri...

Practically every human being . . . has experienced that strange inner gnawing, that mental hunger, that unsettling unrest that makes us say, ‘I feel lonely.’ Loneliness is one of the most universal e...

Pain is the most individualizing thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization comes only when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer...

No person has ever walked our earth and been free from the pains of loneliness. Rich and poor, wise and ignorant, faith-filled and agnostic, healthy and unhealthy have all alike had to face and strugg...

The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority, Obtrude no more.

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

[Alienation is] “the state of mind that can find a social order remote, incomprehensible, or fraudulent.

You cannot be lonely if you help the lonely.

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.

Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet I have found peace in my loneliest times not only through accep...

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. (For Contrast).

"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."

Harvard Professor Robert Putnam once lamented that Americans were “bowling alone;” increasingly, we’re also eating alone, as nobody is home for dinner.

According to a 2018 CIGNA study, loneliness in America has reached “epidemic” levels. After surveying twenty thousand adults, researchers found that 46 percent felt alone either sometimes or always, 4...

“Man has a horror of aloneness, and of all kinds of aloneness, moral aloneness is the most terrible.”

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”

Many of us assume that our spiritual heroes do not have to experience the same inner-wrestling that we do. Mother Teresa, beloved across the world is one such figure we might “assume” didn’t have to d...