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“We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.”

Pain Fear Waiting Dark Poverty Loneliness Particular Creatures Thirds Fourth Ridicule Fifth Physical Pain Ambush

Author:Horace Walpole

“What's mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn't fit into a story, what doesn't have a story. Glint of brightness on a barely-there chain. Patch of sunlight on a yellow wall. The loneliness that separates every living creature from every other living creature. Sorrow inseparable from joy.”

Stories Joy Loneliness Wall Fit Sorrow Creatures Mysterious Chains Yellow Sunlight Patches Inseparable Brightness Ambiguous Inexplicable Living Creatures

Author:Donna Tartt

“Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearth-side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.”

Source: Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely. "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. "Certainly," said man. "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away.”

Thinking Men Said Done Earth Purpose Speak Loneliness Creatures Sat Spokes Cosmic Mud Cradle Living Creatures Cats Cradle Bokonon

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")”

Body Earth Healing Impossible Loneliness Creation Creatures Opposites Healed

Author:Wendell Berry

“Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you’ve had love before it - grief is the final outcome of love, because it’s love lost. […] It’s the cycle of love completed: to love, to lose, to feel grief, to leave, and then to love again. Grief is the awareness that you will have to be alone, and there is nothing beyond that because being alone is the ultimate final destiny of each individual living creature. That’s what death is, the great loneliness.”

Feels Littles Individual Lost Causes Loses Grief Steps Destiny Awareness Loneliness Creatures Ultimate Finals Outcomes Cycles Lost Love Living Creatures Love Again

Author:Philip K. Dick

“She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her.”

Want Beautiful Stars Tree Loneliness Cold Creatures Silent Burning Solitary Bleak Like Her Beautiful Creatures

Author:Kristin Cashore

“Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.”

Earth Heaven Sleep Power Loneliness Source Creatures Lonely Mortals Gentle Frozen Foreheads Lambs Feeling Lonely Marvellous Godlike

Author:William Wordsworth

“For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds.”

Years Firsts Night Four Heard Loneliness Wind Creatures First Time Billions Living Creatures Reeds

Book:The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

Source: The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

“We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of one’s most intimate sources. In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. The more coherent one becomes within oneself as a creature, the more fully one enters into the communion of all creatures.”

Feels Humans Found Voice Loses Loneliness Source Solitude Creatures Consequence Oneself Attraction Obligation Intimate Communion Inner Voice Wild Places

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays