“You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked body, you look around to see verdant leaves dripping with water. The air entering your lungs smells vibrantly clean. To experience adventure, you must be willing to be uncomfortable at times and enjoy the loneliness by being happy with your own singing. A song pops out of your mouth... "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was fine..."” FeelsLooksLongBodyNightSongLeftEnjoyWaterAirLonelinessWillingAdventureFineSingingMouthsRainMiseryCleanPopsSmellWeatherDespiteDirtyUncomfortableDishesEnteringLungsAll NightRagsDrippingDirty Dishes Author:Frosty Wooldridge
“Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.” PeopleMindSpiritualEnergyWaterSilenceClearLonelinessHotNoiseEmptinessMessyBatteriesClear WaterSpiritual Energy Author:Benjamin Hoff
“Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?” Has BeensWaterBrainCompanyToo MuchLonelinessPursuitIslandsEmptinessThirstSailor Author:Margaret Atwood
“For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of being blessed by belonging. If the universe is an unfolding bud, then I am a part of its creative surge, along with the flowing of water and the growing of pines. I can find a kind of camaraderie in this universe, once I recover from the astonishment of it. Or maybe not camaraderie exactly. What is the opposite of loneliness?” IfsThinkingKindI CanFeelingsUniverseWaterCreativeGrowingLonelinessSmartOppositesBlessedBelongingBudUnfoldingAstonishmentCamaraderieBeing Blessed Author:Kathleen Moore
“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
“The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.” HomeAbleHouseFeltWaterLonelinessIsolationShakesCabinsUp NorthIsolation And Loneliness Author:Jessica Lange
“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.” MenWaterRoomsDarknessLonelinessPrideSolitudeEach DayDependentSunlightAnother Man Author:Charles Bukowski
“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.” YearsHumansTwoSufferingWaterHuman BeingsWeekWorstLonelinessTortureHomelessnessElevenTwo WeeksEleven Minutes Author:Paulo Coelho
“There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.” KnowsHandsWould BeWantedWaterAirLonelinessKissingAbundancePullingDrowningReckless Author:Ann Patchett
“Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.” TogetherFacesWaterNiceLonelinessColdSensationsYour FaceWashingCold Water Book:The Lake Source: The Lake
“It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.” ThinkingYearsWholeFeelingsSeemsWantedAsksWaterNaturalKnownAirLonelinessBecomingQuietDespairSpringBirdLonelyBreathsFilledBreathePeacefulDawnThirtyGrayWakingFuryThirty YearsDaylightAmazementSuspensionBecoming OneSpring Water Author:William Faulkner
“He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.” IfsMindRunningLyingWaterLonelinessWasteStonesSandRunning AwayLighthouse Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose.” I CanSoulMomentsFactsBodyFacesWaterLonelinessCurrentsSeparationUniquenessGlimpseIncarnationAnother LifeBodies Of Water Book:Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel Source: Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel