“Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimension, to look at ways in which a fundamental sense of being separated from others shapes who we are and why.” ThinkingWayWantLooksChoicesLonelinessShapesSolitudeNegativeFundamentalsPressesWho We AreDimensionsAlone Time Author:Thomas L. Dumm
“Do not think I do not realise what I am doing. I am making a composition using the following elements: the winter beach; the winter moon; the ocean; the women; the pine trees; the riders; the driftwood; the shells; the shapes of darkness and the shapes of water; and the refuse. These are all inimical to my loneliness because of their indifference to it. Out of these pieces of inimical indifference, I intend to represent the desolate smile of winter which, as you must have gathered, is the smile I wear.” ThinkingWaterDarknessPiecesTreeLonelinessShapesMoonElementsOceanWinterFollowingRefuseBeachIndifferenceRealisingShellsCompositionRidersDesolatePine TreesDriftwoodWinter Moon Author:Angela Carter
“However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how the true artist-seer actually dies? I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.” HumansDoeArtistDiesCausesLonelinessProduceColorFoolShapesConscienceSacredSuicideReportsHeavenlyConsumptionContradictorySeersTrue ArtistsScruples Author:J. D. Salinger
“loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing.” StillsEnoughCuttingLonelinessShapesSkillsSizeGood EnoughHelicopters Author:Tao Lin
“Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love.” WorldWayTwoDreamMightMotherUniverseLossHeardLonelinessDesignShapesSooner Or LaterMisunderstandingStaticDream WorldLove Loss Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
“Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.” NamesLonelinessSorrowShapesAbsenceSickness Author:Gregory Maguire
“She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings into any sentiment she could imagine her parents could bear reading.” IfsFeelingsReadingFeltParentImagineLonelinessRegretBearsShapesSentiments Book:Clockwork Princess Source: Clockwork Princess