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“Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.”

Way Home Used Half Loneliness Fields Wind Higher Bird Crosses One Way Pencils Permanence Way Home Telegraph Foliage Steeples

Author:A. E. Coppard

“There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.”

Stories Romance Used Our Lives Crime Loneliness Danger Drug Drinking Petty

Author:Joey Comeau

“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

“Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.”

Thinking Used Loneliness Travel Realising

Author:David Mitchell

“No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things - the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold - were false to you.”

Humans Used Achieve Loneliness Tools Dignity Trade Pursuit Experiments Vanity Irrelevant Vocation

Author:Beryl Markham

“There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness.”

Used Fighting Loneliness Cry Brother My Brother Pillow Great Times Being Lonely Pillow Fights

Author:Michael Jackson

“A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.”

Men World Used Company Boys Worst Loneliness This World Youth Used To Be Single Being Single Grown Man

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to to find other people or to even know they're alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Helping Used Healing Loneliness Opposites Illness Wounds Used To Be Limitation Ashamed Compassionate

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“People living alone get used to loneliness.”

People Used Loneliness Living Alone

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling. He was no different from the dark things in the boundary. A bringer of death.”

Source: Wizard's First Rule

“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 used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”

“From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on fillers, as if what we have, what we are, is not enough. We have a cultural tendency toward denial, but being affluent, we strangle ourselves with what we can buy. We gave only to look at the houses we build to see how we build *against* space, the way we drink against pain and loneliness. We fill up space as if it were a pie shell, with things whose opacity further obstructs our ability to see what is already there.”

Ifs Way Looks Enough Pain Used House Ability Space Loneliness Drink Tendencies Denial Soil Shells Pie Candy Lipstick Gum Affluent Ability To See Wyoming Fillers

Author:Gretel Ehrlich