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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

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.

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.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

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.

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.