Suffering, pain, sorrow, humiliation, feelings of loneliness, are nothing but a kiss of Jesus.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.

Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.

There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.