Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.
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.
Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.
Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
Loneliness comes with life.
The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.