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“Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.”

Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

“No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.”

Men War Feelings Lost Generations Modern Loneliness Revolution Achievement Institutions Terror Disappointment Providence Technological Inferiority Our Generation Modern Man Lost Faith

Book:Aspects of I.B. Singer

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.”

Self Age Born Pay Modern Loneliness Independence Egotistical Modern Age

Author:Soseki Natsume

“Modern loneliness is an extraverted loneliness, in which the person is surrounded by many people and partakes of much communication but feels unrecognized and more alone and, although connected technically, isolated and even estranged emotionally.”

People Modern Loneliness Communication

Author:Edward Hallowell

“Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.”

World Modern Loneliness Modern World Leprosy

Author:Mother Teresa

“No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.”

World Modern Loneliness Conscience Lonely Modern World Feeling Lonely

Book:Letters of Ellen Glasgow

Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow

“Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.”

Men World Feelings Spiritual Spirituality Belief Natural Modern Dangerous Loneliness Illusion Weakness Difficulty Separation Emptiness Natural World Feeling Lonely Modern Man

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.”