#loneliness

One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shore and said, "We need a voice to call across the water, to warn ships; I'll make one. I'll make a voice like all of time and all of the fog that ever was; I'll make a voice that is like an empty bed beside you all night long, and like an empty house when you open the door, and like trees in autumn with no leaves. A sound like the birds flying south, crying, and a sound like November wind and the sea on the hard, cold shore. I'll make a sound that's so alone that no one can miss it, that whoever hears it will weep in their souls, and hearths will seem warmer, and being inside will seem better to all who hear it in the distant towns. I'll make me a sound and an apparatus and they'll call it a Fog Horn and whoever hears it will know the sadness of eternity and the briefness of life." The Fog Horn blew. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#fog #loneliness #sadness #life

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#vanity

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#loss #moving-forward #solitude #the-yellow-house #life

We are strangers to our own lives, setting out in the dark to look for the adobe of Love which we were meant to know, guided by the Music that wants us to see. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#love #spirituality #love

I'm not much but I'm all I have. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#optimism #responsibility #time #responsibility

I was alone in that room. Of course, there were bodies all around, but they were all dead. They were dead when I got there. Well, most of them were dead. The last few I had to strangle so I could enjoy some solitude. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#bodies #body #death #enjoy #joy

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#community #found #known #loneliness #long

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. ↗

— Alice Walker

#been #gift #into #loneliness #people

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#fact #i #in the past #loneliness #many

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#close #communicate #cruel #felt #loneliness