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“The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.”

“Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company.”

Way Writing Character Past Company Loneliness Scene Lonely Finding Yourself Our Past Your Past

Book:A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement

Source: A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement

“I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.”

People Thinking Feels Whole Stories Shows Feelings Dream Past Fall Waiting Rocks Loneliness Structure Winter Bones Awful Hills Landscape Timelessness

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.”

World Past Loneliness This World Tragedy Being Alone

Book:Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dust. People hurried past me. and everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them.”

People Past Left Given Felt Dark Streets Loneliness Library Forgotten Envy Dust Abandoned Brutal Hollow Crossings Unnoticed Sidewalk Crossing The Street

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.”

Men Firsts Country Past Mother Felt Novel Land Loneliness Daughter Acknowledge Continents Tigers My Past

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“In past wars only homes burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites. In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite.”

Ifs War Home Past Loneliness Shadow Ignite

Author:Sahir Ludhianvi

“In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.”

People Thinking Reason Facts Past Loneliness Being Lonely

Author:Alberto Giacometti