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“The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal”

Should Soul Sound Dark Consciousness Worst Loneliness Horror Size Dare Graves Makers Locks Alarms Seals Scrutiny Suspended Corridors Plumbing Caverns Fear Me

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier.”

Thinking Wells Made Turns Waiting Sound Sleep Loneliness Cry Poet Clothes Bird This Life Ashamed Yellow Locks Steam Drawers Polaroids

Author:Conor Oberst

“My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.”

Faces Sound White Loneliness Expression Wall Solitude Music Is White Walls

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.”

Kind Seems Sound Alive Feet Loneliness Arms Skins Ships Knees Dry Smooth Holding On Rockers

Author:Toni Morrison

“Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.”

Source: Last flight

“He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.”

Names Sound Loneliness Meaningless Dictionary Entry

Book:Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel

Source: Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel

“There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation – an ascent above the reach of life's expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings.”

Humans Sound Levels Loneliness Strange Solitude Mountain Expectations Silent Features Companionship Trembling Elevation Ascent Colossal Expanse Elation Undefined Misgivings

Book:The Haunted Baronet

Source: The Haunted Baronet

“In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street. A young girl looks out a window and wishes she were married. A drunk sleeps under a bridge. It is tomorrow.”

“To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.”

People Needs Littles Age Earth Sound Opinion Middle Subjects Loneliness Bitter Middle Ages Blasphemy

Book:Burmese Days

Source: Burmese Days

“You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.”

Source: West with the Night

“One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.”

Doe Left Speak Sound Air Sadness Loneliness Despair Winter Branches Unhappiness Leafs Breeze Swaying

Book:Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994

Source: Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994

“The sound of loneliness makes me happier.”

Sound Loneliness

Author:Conor Oberst