Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Who knows what true loneliness is-not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.