Loneliness

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Loneliness by Hans Thoma (National Museum in Warsaw)

Loneliness is a sad emotion that a person can feel if they are isolated or feel a sense of lack of friends and family members. Loneliness can make people feel anxious.

People can feel lonely even if they are surrounded by a lot of other people. Loneliness can occur even to people in marriages, relationships, families and successful jobs. One cause of loneliness is a lack of friends during childhood and teenage years. Loneliness can also be caused by chronic depression. Loneliness can also be caused when a relationship or marriage ends.

Moreover, in the scenarios where you are the only who understands the whole picture, the person might learn few techniques and read self-help guides that can help in coping up with loneliness.

Loneliness is a theme in literature, going back to the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Loneliness Media

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  Thomas Wolfe who, in an often quoted passage, stated "The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence."

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  "Be good & you will be lonesome." wrote Mark Twain in Following the Equator (1897)

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  The 1942 painting Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, depicting a man watching a couple dining

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  Paro, a robot pet seal classified as a medical device by U.S. regulators

Related pages

• Social isolation
• Solitude
• Belyaev, Igor A. and Lyashchenko, Maksim N. (2020) “Socio-cultural determinacy of human loneliness”, Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 1264–1274, DOI: 10.17516/1997-1370-0640.