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“We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.”

Pain Fear Waiting Dark Poverty Loneliness Particular Creatures Thirds Fourth Ridicule Fifth Physical Pain Ambush

Author:Horace Walpole

“Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.”

Men Trying Heart Soul Poverty Break Loneliness Try Me

Author:Sam Rayburn

“On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.”

Spiritual Certain Poverty Loneliness Materials Continents Discouragement Meaning Life

Book:No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition

Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition

“Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.”

Giving Kind Poverty Worst Loneliness Youth Conscious Excitement New Day Retrospect Worst Day

Author:Fay Weldon

“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 brains cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.”

Age Hours Brain Poverty Loneliness Healthy Despair Projects Optimism Obstacles Enormous Old Age Enlightened Enlightening New Projects

Author:Sherwin B. Nuland

“Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.”

Kind Use Feelings Poverty Worst Loneliness

Author:Mother Teresa

“Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.”

Suffering Poverty Loneliness Policy Emotional Source Elderly Emotional Suffering

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”

Self Poverty Meditation Loneliness Solitude Lonely Richness Being Alone Feeling Lonely Being Lonely Loneliness And Solitude I Am Lonely Like Being Alone Loneliness In Life Being Unloved

Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

“Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.”

Suffering Poverty Loneliness Emotional Source Emotional Suffering

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”

“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”

Source: A Simple Path-Open Market

“It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.”

Mind Ends God Poverty Loneliness Misery Extremes Strikes Peculiar Desolation Indescribable

Book:Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence

Source: Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence