There is no lonelier person than one who loves only himself.

— Talmud, Textsammlung

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C.S. Lewis

The worst hunger can be the hunger to be noticed and loved.
Mother Teresa

When no one listens to me anymore, God still listens to me.
Pope Benedict XVI

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
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We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.
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For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S. Eliot

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

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