“And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to hold onto. And so, inevitably, we wind up living lives of isolation and loneliness.” WorldFeelsHomeDifficultLonelinessWindInsightOnenessLive LifeGrievingIsolationConnectednessIsolation And Loneliness Author:Irwin Kula
“Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.” WayHomeUsedHalfLonelinessFieldsWindHigherBirdCrossesOne WayPencilsPermanenceWay HomeTelegraphFoliageSteeples Author:A. E. Coppard
“You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.” WorldCharacterHomeDreamGoneLonelinessAdventureReturnNormalAspectLongingProbabilityOccasionalVikingsHomesickness Author:Agatha Christie
“If same-sex relationships are really sinful, then why do they so often produce good fruit-loving families, open homes, self-sacrifice, commitment, faithfulness, joy? And if conservative Christians are really right in their response to same-sex relationships, then why does that response often produce bad fruit-secrets, shame, depression, loneliness, broken families, and fear?” IfsDoeSelfHomeChristianJoySexSecretSacrificeLonelinessProduceBrokenCommitmentShameResponseFruitConservativeFaithfulnessSelf SacrificeLoving FamilySex RelationshipsBroken Family Author:Rachel Held Evans
“Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the long drive home again in time for supper. It was a lovely brook and I caught seven good trout and one small one - which eight trout-persons you should have for your breakfast if only you were near enough. It was not alone the fishing, but the delightful loneliness and being out of doors.” IfsShouldPersonsLongEnoughHomeNiceDoorsLonelinessShould HaveSevenCaughtEightLovelyFishingBreakfastDelightfulNot AloneCarterBrooksSupperTroutNotchesNice DayTrout FishingLong Drive Book:Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett Source: Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett
“Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.” HomeRememberLonelinessBetrayalSmell Author:Cherrie Moraga
“It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.” PeopleRealHomeExistenceLonelinessPeriodsLonelyTwentiesComedianBizarreClichePoignant Author:Paul Merton