“Become aware of your aloneness - which is a reality. And it is so beautiful to experience it, to feel it, because it is your freedom from the crowd, from the other. It is your freedom from the fear of being lonely.” FeelsRealityBeautifulLonelinessLonelyCrowdsBeing LonelyYour Freedom Author:Rajneesh
“Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.” WorldWayLoveLongSoulWholeBeautifulLyingNightGoalHoursPerfectThis WorldFlowerEternalLonelyGreenMeetingsGoldenWearyLoneLong NightsGreen Leaves Author:Edwin Arnold
“How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.” IfsHeartMadeBeautifulWaterThousandFairsLonelySightDelightTongueSpotsGrandeurWondrousSparkleMirth Author:Elizabeth Oakes Smith
“Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west.” LastsBeautifulViewsHugeMassShadowRedLonelyFilledWestHillsSunsetPrairieNightfall Book:Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter Source: Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
“I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be lonesome where everything is wild and beautiful and busy and steeped with God that the question is hard to answer.” IfsSelfHardSeemsBeautifulAnswersWonderMysteryLonelyBusySolitaryEvidentLonesomeExcursions Author:John Muir
“It's hard to go. It's scary and lonely...and half the time you'll be wondering why the hell you're in Cincinnati or Austin or North Dakota or Mongolia or wherever your melodious little finger-plucking heinie takes you. There will be boondoggles and discombobulated days, freaked-out nights and metaphorical flat tires. But it will be soul-smashingly beautiful... It will open up your life.” LittlesSoulHardBeautifulNightHalfWonderHellLonelyFingersScaryFlatsTireMetaphoricalAustinDakotaMongoliaNorth DakotaFlat Tires Author:Cheryl Strayed
“Life seems somehow less shocking, painful, and lonely - and more hopeful, agreeable, and beautiful - when our experiences are confirmed by those of others. Although each of us is unique, there are familiar responses and doubts and joys that let us know we have kin. We are not, after all, too strange to live.” KnowsSeemsBeautifulJoyFamilyDoubtStrangeFriendsUniqueLonelyResponsePainfulFamiliarHopefulShockingFamily Friends Author:Rosalie Maggio
“The Ploughmen is part inspired fever-dream, part adventure story, a lyric parable of not just goodand evil but of the vast and beautiful and often lonely country in-between. Kim Zupan is a wonder.” CountryStoriesDreamBeautifulEvilWonderAdventureLonelyInspiredFeverKimParables Author:Rick Bass