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“I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand others.”

Earth Loneliness Sweet Thousand Rain Smell Virgins Fiery Inhale Rain Drop

Author:Faraaz Kazi

“I was in L.A. in '08. It was a cold Saturday night. I had spread my phone number out to a score of women and was just indulging this sweet, sad, elegiac, bale loneliness - don't tell me you haven't been there.”

Night Numbers Loneliness Havens Sweet Cold Phones Spread Score Saturday Saturday Night Phone Numbers

Author:James Ellroy

“Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.”

Looks Loneliness Sweet Solitude Absence Being Alone

Author:Milan Kundera

“When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them – the career dads, the responsible and diligent moms – and I was soon filled with dread and loneliness. I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.”

Source: Lunar Park

“It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him - I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering - It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight -”

Littles Might Used Suffering Dark Rooms Fate Failing Land Loneliness Sweet Easier Gains Sight Blue Crowds Delight Sacraments Accustomed Parades Peninsulas

Book:Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother faraway, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our deaths, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid: with just this one pride and consolation: my broke heart in the general despair and opened up inwards to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream”

Source: Visions of Cody

“The confusing lesson whipped Frankie's anger into something she had never felt before. It was like an emotional meringue - the airy feeling of loneliness topped with the hard crisp of injustice. Yet its taste was far from sweet.”

Hard Feelings Felt Loneliness Emotional Sweet Lessons Taste Injustice Confusing Crisps Airy

Book:Monster High

Source: Monster High

“Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness”

Dark Loneliness Sweet Twilight Haiku

Author:Matsuo Basho

“How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.”

May Stills Loneliness Sweet Solitude Passing Passings Grants Retreat

Book:The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1

Source: The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1

“The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs; The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration-all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores; At the fifth cup I am purified; The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup-ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither.”

Feels Firsts Break Loneliness Sweet Wind Thousand Thirds Let Me Breaths Raises Lips Cups Tea Odd Realms Call Me Throat Fourth Volume Breeze Fifth Sleeves Barren Perspiration Elysium Sweet Tea

Author:Lu Tong

“O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that the warmth from other people comes so sweet to us when it comes, because, we always carry with us the knowledge of the cold loneliness of death?”

People Ifs Looks Loneliness Sweet Cold Lonely Warmth

Author:Ama Ata Aidoo