Quotes about Isolation
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
— Mortimer Adler
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
— Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
— Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody.
— Mother Teresa
Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
— Mother Teresa
Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
— Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
— Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for and unwanted are the greatest poverty.
— Mother Teresa
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
— Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.
— Mother Teresa
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
— Mother Teresa
The church is to live as the alternative polis, not by separating itself into sectarian isolation but by bearing witness, like Daniel and his friends, before kings and rulers. The aim is not to damn, but to redeem; the leaves on the tree are for the healing of the nations, and the gates stand open for the kings of the earth to bring their treasures. Only if we keep that goal before us will we avoid the isolation which is the mirror image of collusion.
— NT Wright