Mother Teresa Quotes

All I have are the people.

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

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

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

I don't want people to be lonely. I would like them to find partners.

I think everyone is lonely whether you are in a good marriage or a bad marriage somewhere down the line you become lonely, and to get rid of that loneliness you have to try really hard.

It seemed a marvel to her that any mortal should suffer for lack of love, and yet she had never known a mortal who didn't feel unloved. There was enough love just in this ugly hallway, she thought, that no one should ever feel the lack of it again. She peered at the parents, imagining their hearts like machines, manufacturing surfeit upon surfeit of love for their children, and then wondered how something could be so awesome and so utterly powerless.

Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.

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.

I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?

Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are not liable at that time to notice, are tightened together upon a bed: and another family has begun.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.

that person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

It's a lot easier to find a friend on television than love.

Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.