Taylor Swift

I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

American Singer

Robert Frost

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

American Poet

Frank Bruno

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

British Athlete

Kim Cattrall

A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely.

English Actress

Anton Chekhov

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Russian Dramatist

Eugene O'Neill

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

American Dramatist

Barry Bonds

American Athlete

Frank Grillo

American Actor

Melissa Leo

American Actress

Whitney Houston

American Musician

Emphasizes the sadness of being alone, not just the fact of physical solitude.

Emotional State

Can describe a temporary emotion, doesn't mean always feeling alone.

Temporary Feeling

It's subjective, based on personal feelings, not an objective situation.

Personal Perception

Describes places lacking people, emphasizing a sense of isolation.

Physical Location

Often used in storytelling to set a mood or atmosphere of a place.

Creates Atmosphere

Can be used figuratively to describe something standing out by being different.

Figurative Meaning

Often triggers a sense of nostalgia or bittersweet memory.

Emotional Trigger

Highlights a contrast between the past happiness and current state.

Comparison with Past

Used to express that the subject has lost its former companionship or status.

Expresses Change

 toe the line between visual art and poetry. Meanwhile, E.E. Cummings wrote poems whose shapes were as important as the words themselves, in this case amplifying the sad loneliness of a single leaf falling through space. If the visual nature of poetry faded into the background, perhaps we'd be left with music,

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 quiet teacher who somehow managed to convince her entire school to rethink its emphasis on class participation and endless group projects and there was even a lonely young guy who decided not to commit suicide because he finally realized there was a place for him in this world and today believe it or not

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 There are plenty of beneficial uses for computerized emotion recognition. Robots using algorithms to identify facial expressions can help children learn or provide lonely people with a sense of companionship. Social media companies are considering using algorithms

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 sex is unsatisfying. Our fear of the cold, cruel world tempts us to build hard shells to protect and isolate ourselves. Love's delight, intimacy, and warmth helps us overcome our fear of the world, escape our lonely shells, and engage more abundantly in life.

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 than we do our minds? Why is it that our physical health is so much more important to us than our psychological health? We sustain psychological injuries even more often than we do physical ones, injuries like failure or rejection or loneliness.

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 And what if everyone is permanently invisible? Well, think about how boring the world would be without seeing people on the streets, on TV, or at home on your computer like right now. It's lonely being invisible.

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 Have you picked out a spot for your new home? No? Well, I'm here to help. First things first, here are some of the things you'll need to bring to The Red a high tolerance for cold, loneliness, and radiation;

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 Life in the lonely, dark cave had warped Siffre's own perception of time despite his brain's best efforts to keep him on track. This makes us wonder what else influences our sense of time.

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 have you're gonna live a lonely life that is a necessary ingredient for every human being that we need to catch up and live amongst mother nature and learn to

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 are jellyfish a life spent drifting in the empty ocean could be a lonely one but not for this jellyfish Aurelia swarms like this are not accidental

Lonely