loneliness, n.Definitions

Loneliness is converted by the hermit -through looking and pondering -into solitude.

Loneliness is mastered when one would be unhappy without it.

Loneliness is a result of life's having been broken off from whatever created it.

Loneliness is a naked terror which few know, as even the most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Loneliness is marked by the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

Loneliness is anguish not because one has no one to share one's burden, but rather, because one has only one's own burden to bear.

Loneliness is a gift that sometimes enables a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Loneliness is a need that is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.