Lonely
When you feel lonely
The feeling that you’re the only one. Lines from people who weren’t, each checked against the original text.
“I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?”
Emily Dickinson“I’m nobody! Who are you?”, Poems, Second Series (1891)
For when you feel like the only one.
What it means →“…water too seeks in the world them that are thirsty.”
RumiMasnavi, Book I, line 1741
For when it feels like all the longing is on your side.
What it means →“For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures…”
Francis BaconEssays, “Of Friendship” (1625 edition)
For when you’re lonely even with people around you.
What it means →
Heavier than a line can hold? Talk is a quieter room.