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“And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to hold onto. And so, inevitably, we wind up living lives of isolation and loneliness.”

World Feels Home Difficult Loneliness Wind Insight Oneness Live Life Grieving Isolation Connectedness Isolation And Loneliness

Author:Irwin Kula

“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

“The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.”

“But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.”

Source: Other Voices, Other Rooms

“Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.”

Heart Desire My Own Subjects Loneliness Wind Conventions Echoes Predecessors Flowering Almonds

Author:Louise Glück

“Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.”

Loneliness Wind Burning Height Sand Wilderness Glowing

Author:Amy Carmichael

“If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.”

Ifs Want Dream Grows Dark Loneliness Wind Wings Your Dreams Finding Yourself Pace Trails Cocoons

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”

Dies Fall Friendship White Inspiring Loneliness Wind Friends Blow Snow Packs Lone Lone Wolf Song Of Ice And Fire Snow Falling Wolf Packs

Book:A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”

“About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the wind increasing to a gale. The waves rose high, but I had a good ship. Still, in the dismal fog I felt myself drifting into loneliness, an insect on the straw in the midst of the elements.”

Stills Felt Numbers Loneliness Wind Elements Aging Rose Wave Ships Midst Midnight Fog Insects Drifting Straws Gale

Book:The Voyages of Joshua Slocum

Source: The Voyages of Joshua Slocum

“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

“For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds.”

Years Firsts Night Four Heard Loneliness Wind Creatures First Time Billions Living Creatures Reeds

Book:The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

Source: The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

“Dreams burst like bubbles in the wind. But change takes time.When people fall in love and lose the overwhelming desire for it to last a lifetime,they think something is wrong with them.Only now,when every other marriage ends in divorce,have people begun to understand that falling in love seldom grows into love,and that not even love can free a person from loneliness.And that sexual enjoyment does not make life meaningful.”

“People turn on you just like the wind Everybody is a fair weather friend In the end, you're better off alone”

Friendship Loneliness Trust Wind Alone

Book:Working on a Song: The Lyrics of HADESTOWN

Source: Working on a Song: The Lyrics of HADESTOWN