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			[[File:Einstein 1921 by F Schmutzer - restoration.jpg\|thumb\|Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] ]]

	* My people were once around me like the sands of the shore—many—many. They have all passed away. They have died like the grass. They have gone to the mountains. I do not complain; the antelope falls with the arrow. I had a son. I loved him. When the palefaces came he went away. I do not know where he is. I am a Christian Indian; I am all that is left of my people. I am alone.		* My people were once around me like the sands of the shore—many—many. They have all passed away. They have died like the grass. They have gone to the mountains. I do not complain; the antelope falls with the arrow. I had a son. I loved him. When the palefaces came he went away. I do not know where he is. I am a Christian Indian; I am all that is left of my people. I am alone.
	** "An aged Indian of Dolores," as reported in Congressional Series of United States Public Documents, Volume 688		** "An aged Indian of Dolores," as reported in Congressional Series of United States Public Documents, Volume 688
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	* Loneliness / Got a mind of its own / The more people around / The more you feel alone		* Loneliness / Got a mind of its own / The more people around / The more you feel alone
	** [[Bob Dylan]], "Marchin' to the City", ''[[w: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs\|The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs]]'' (2008).		** [[Bob Dylan]], "Marchin' to the City", ''[[w: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs\|The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs]]'' (2008).

			* Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.
			** [[Albert Einstein]], in "''My Credo''", a speech to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin (Autumn 1932), as published in ''Einstein: A Life in Science'' (1994) by Michael White and John Gribbin, p. 262.

	* What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?		* What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

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	* The remedy for loneliness is human fellowship, the warmth of real, live, flesh-and-blood companions and loved-ones; not prating in a vacuum to an imaginary friend for whose existence there is no vestige of serious evidence. Even an AI robot is better than that. At least ChatGPT exists, really talks back at you, will actually hold a friendly conversation. But talk to the imaginary friend which is God (Allah, Virgin Mary, Lord Krishna, Thor, Zeus, Mithras, name yours) and the only reply you’ll get is conjured within your own imagination. You’ll be talking to yourself, which is really rather sad, and hardly an antidote to loneliness.		* The remedy for loneliness is human fellowship, the warmth of real, live, flesh-and-blood companions and loved-ones; not prating in a vacuum to an imaginary friend for whose existence there is no vestige of serious evidence. Even an AI robot is better than that. At least ChatGPT exists, really talks back at you, will actually hold a friendly conversation. But talk to the imaginary friend which is God (Allah, Virgin Mary, Lord Krishna, Thor, Zeus, Mithras, name yours) and the only reply you’ll get is conjured within your own imagination. You’ll be talking to yourself, which is really rather sad, and hardly an antidote to loneliness.
	** [https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/no-satisfying-alternative-to-religion No Satisfying Alternative to Religion? Try Reality.] (April 23, 2025)		** [[Richard Dawkins]], [https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/no-satisfying-alternative-to-religion No Satisfying Alternative to Religion? Try Reality.] (April 23, 2025)

	* Loneliness / Got a mind of its own / The more people around / The more you feel alone		* Loneliness / Got a mind of its own / The more people around / The more you feel alone

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	* Who knows what true happiness is? Not the conventional word but the naked terror. To the lonely themselves, it wears a mask. The most miserable [[Outcast (person)\|outcast]] hugs some memory or some illusion.		* Who knows what true happiness is? Not the conventional word but the naked terror. To the lonely themselves, it wears a mask. The most miserable [[Outcast (person)\|outcast]] hugs some memory or some illusion.
	** [[Joseph Conrad]] in ''[[w:Under Western Eyes (novel)\|Under Western Eyes]]'' (1911)		** [[Joseph Conrad]] in ''[[w:Under Western Eyes (novel)\|Under Western Eyes]]'' (1911)

			* The remedy for loneliness is human fellowship, the warmth of real, live, flesh-and-blood companions and loved-ones; not prating in a vacuum to an imaginary friend for whose existence there is no vestige of serious evidence. Even an AI robot is better than that. At least ChatGPT exists, really talks back at you, will actually hold a friendly conversation. But talk to the imaginary friend which is God (Allah, Virgin Mary, Lord Krishna, Thor, Zeus, Mithras, name yours) and the only reply you’ll get is conjured within your own imagination. You’ll be talking to yourself, which is really rather sad, and hardly an antidote to loneliness.
			** [https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/no-satisfying-alternative-to-religion No Satisfying Alternative to Religion? Try Reality.] (April 23, 2025)

	* Loneliness / Got a mind of its own / The more people around / The more you feel alone		* Loneliness / Got a mind of its own / The more people around / The more you feel alone

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	* The road kept coming, and<br>continued going somewhere alone.		* The road kept coming, and<br>continued going somewhere alone.
	** [[Suman Pokhrel]], ''A Story of the setting Sun and the Moon''		** [[Suman Pokhrel]], ''A Story of the setting Sun and the Moon''

			* Whatever is in the heavens and the earth declares the glory of Allah, and He is the Mighty, the Wise. His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. He gives life and causes death; and He is Possessor of power over all things. He is the First and the Last and the Manifest and the Hidden, and He is Knower of all things. He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six periods, and He is established on the Throne of Power. He knows that which goes down into the earth and that which comes forth out of it, and that which comes down from heaven and that which goes up to it. And '''[[God\|He is with you wherever you are]]'''. And Allah is Seer of what you do. His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; and to Allah are (all) affairs returned. He causes the night to pass into the day, and causes the day to pass into the night. And He is Knower of what is in the hearts.
			** Quran, Al-Hadid 1-6

	* A man with no friends, only live for revenge <br> Live his life off the henge, cut, through a thousand men <br> Blade swing with the force of a cyclone <br> Cut crystal and bone, pistol and chrome <br> Stand in my path, you're a dead man <br> I cut the whole world in half for the Number One headband <br> Quest of a lonely soul, on a lonely road		* A man with no friends, only live for revenge <br> Live his life off the henge, cut, through a thousand men <br> Blade swing with the force of a cyclone <br> Cut crystal and bone, pistol and chrome <br> Stand in my path, you're a dead man <br> I cut the whole world in half for the Number One headband <br> Quest of a lonely soul, on a lonely road

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	* Sometimes I feel <br> Like I don't have a partner <br> Sometimes I feel <br> Like my only friend <br> Is the city I live in <br> The [[Los Angeles\|city of angels]] <br> Lonely as I am <br> Together we cry <br> ... <br> It's hard to believe <br> That there's nobody out there <br> It's hard to believe <br> That I'm all alone <br> At least I have her love <br> The city, she loves me <br> Lonely as I am <br> Together we cry.		* Sometimes I feel <br> Like I don't have a partner <br> Sometimes I feel <br> Like my only friend <br> Is the city I live in <br> The [[Los Angeles\|city of angels]] <br> Lonely as I am <br> Together we cry <br> ... <br> It's hard to believe <br> That there's nobody out there <br> It's hard to believe <br> That I'm all alone <br> At least I have her love <br> The city, she loves me <br> Lonely as I am <br> Together we cry.
	** {{w\|Red Hot Chili Peppers}}, ''{{w\|Under the Bridge}}, {{w\|Blood Sugar Sex Magik}}'' (1991)		** {{w\|Red Hot Chili Peppers}}, ''{{w\|Under the Bridge}}, {{w\|Blood Sugar Sex Magik}}'' (1991)

			* The road kept coming, and<br>continued going somewhere alone.
			** [[Suman Pokhrel]], ''A Story of the setting Sun and the Moon''

	* A man with no friends, only live for revenge <br> Live his life off the henge, cut, through a thousand men <br> Blade swing with the force of a cyclone <br> Cut crystal and bone, pistol and chrome <br> Stand in my path, you're a dead man <br> I cut the whole world in half for the Number One headband <br> Quest of a lonely soul, on a lonely road		* A man with no friends, only live for revenge <br> Live his life off the henge, cut, through a thousand men <br> Blade swing with the force of a cyclone <br> Cut crystal and bone, pistol and chrome <br> Stand in my path, you're a dead man <br> I cut the whole world in half for the Number One headband <br> Quest of a lonely soul, on a lonely road
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	* Well I'm the only one here.		* Well I'm the only one here.
	** [[w:Paul Schrader\|Paul Schrader]], ''[[Taxi Driver]]'' (1976); character of Travis Bickle.		** [[w:Paul Schrader\|Paul Schrader]], ''[[Taxi Driver]]'' (1976); character of Travis Bickle.

			* From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?
			** [[Sanu Sharma]], ''Pari''

	* I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.		* I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.

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	* Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.		* Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
	** [[Carl Jung]],'' Memories, Dreams and Reflections'' (1963), p. 356.		** [[Carl Jung]],'' Memories, Dreams and Reflections'' (1963), p. 356.

			* It has been said that people of the modern world suffer a great sadness, a "species loneliness"—estrangement from the rest of Creation. We have built this isolation with our fear, with our arrogance, and with our homes brightly lit against the night.
			** [[Robin Wall Kimmerer]], {{cite book \|title={{w\|Braiding Sweetgrass}}: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants \|date=16 September 2013 \|publisher=Milkweed Editions \|isbn=978-1-57131-871-8 \|page=358}}

	* All the lonely people, where do they all come from?		* All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

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	* It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.		* It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.
	** [[Eric Hoffer]], "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'", ''The New York Times Magazine'' (April 25, 1971), p. 55.		** [[Eric Hoffer]], "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'", ''The New York Times Magazine'' (April 25, 1971), p. 55.

			*The lonelier you are, the more you pull away, until humans seem an alien race, with customs and a [[language]] you can't begin to understand.
			**[[Alice Hoffman]] Practical Magic (1995)

	* The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" <br> "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons–that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to. <br> "But all the same," insisted the Savage, "it is natural to believe in God when you're alone–quite alone, in the night, thinking about death …" <br> "But people never are alone now," said Mustapha Mond. "We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible for them ever to have it."		* The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" <br> "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons–that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to. <br> "But all the same," insisted the Savage, "it is natural to believe in God when you're alone–quite alone, in the night, thinking about death …" <br> "But people never are alone now," said Mustapha Mond. "We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible for them ever to have it."

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	'''[[w:Loneliness\|Loneliness]]''' is an emotional state in which a person experiences a powerful feeling of [[w:emptiness\|emptiness]] and [[w:Solitude\|isolation]], of being cut off, disconnected from, and alienated towards other people. The lonely person may find it difficult or even impossible to have any form of meaningful human contact. The first recorded use of the word "lonely" was in [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[w:Coriolanus (play)\|Coriolanus]]''.		'''[[w:Loneliness\|Loneliness]]''' is an emotional state in which a person experiences a powerful feeling of [[w:emptiness\|emptiness]] and [[w:Solitude\|isolation]], of being cut off, disconnected from, and alienated towards other people. The lonely person may find it difficult or even impossible to have any form of meaningful human contact. The first recorded use of the word "lonely" was in [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[w:Coriolanus (play)\|Coriolanus]]''.



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	* There walked a lonely man, silent, mute, the only man <br> Not knowing how, not knowing why was he the sole survivor <br> Why should he be alive, breathing still while others died <br> And the only question, why was he the sole survivor? <br> Sole survivor, cursed with second sight <br> [[Haunted]] [[saviour]], cried into the night.		* There walked a lonely man, silent, mute, the only man <br> Not knowing how, not knowing why was he the sole survivor <br> Why should he be alive, breathing still while others died <br> And the only question, why was he the sole survivor? <br> Sole survivor, cursed with second sight <br> [[Haunted]] [[saviour]], cried into the night.
	** [[w:Blue Oyster Cult\|Blue Oyster Cult]], "Sole Survivor", from ''Fire of Unknown Origin'' (1981), lyrics by Erik Bloom, John Trivers, and Liz Myers.		** [[w:Blue Oyster Cult\|Blue Oyster Cult]], "Sole Survivor", from ''Fire of Unknown Origin'' (1981), lyrics by Erik Bloom, John Trivers, and Liz Myers.

			* Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for ''things''. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
			** [[Elizabeth Bowen]], ''The Death of the Heart'' (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938), Part II, Ch. II, p. 193.

	* Loneliness, her arch enemy, never seemed content.		* Loneliness, her arch enemy, never seemed content.

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