“I define loneliness in two ways. On one level, it is the pain or sadness felt in the absence or loss of meaningful relationships. Yet loneliness is more than that. It is also the inevitable pain or sadness we feel in response to living as pilgrims in a fallen, sinful world that cannot provide the perfect relationships we were designed for. We feel lonely when we are deeply aware of our creaturely incompleteness.”
~ Tom Varney, Loneliness