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It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.

— Brendan Myers

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

— Tom Wolfe

Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.

— Amy Tan

There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you move away from where you started.

— Mohsin Hamid

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

— Anna Neagle

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

— Jessica Lange

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.

— Joseph Conrad

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

— Martha Beck

✗Opposing Perspectives

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

— Maggie Smith

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

— Robert Fulghum

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

— Gretchen Rubin