8th
Loneliness In the Modern World
Feeling lonely? Don’t worry! You’re not alone in your loneliness.
“What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?”
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o’clock in the morning.”
— Haruki Murakami (The Wind-up Bird Chronicle)
“My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet’s the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.”
- Dorothy Parker
The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton, Thomas Eakins
Christina’s World, Andrew Wyath
Woman in the Sun, Edward Hopper
