Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.