Posts Tagged With: Loneliness

solitude descending

 

“Man loves company even if it is only
that of a small burning candle.”

 

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken sometime in 1989.


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TÊTE-À-TÊTES

 

“L’automne est le silence avant l’hiver.”
“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

 

~ French Proverb ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.


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LONELY STREET

 

“All great and precious things are lonely.”

 

~ John Steinbeck ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2018.


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PARIS: PLEASURES, PASSIONS AND PERAMBULATIONS – TEN

 

“The world is a book
and those who do not travel
read only one page.”

 

~ Saint Augustine ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a child’s lost companion taken in Paris in May 2018.


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TÊTE-À-TÊTES

 

The world is tired, the year is old,
the faded leaves are glad to die…”

 

~ Sara Teasdale ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Germany in October 2010.


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ALONE FOR THE HOLIDAYS

 

“I love to be alone.
I never found the companion
that was so companionable as solitude.”

 

Henry David Thoreau

 

000-alone-for-the-holidaysDigitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in December 2010.


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MOON TEARS

 

“Music was my refuge.
I could crawl into the space between the notes
and curl my back to loneliness.”

 

~ Maya Angelou ~

 

000-moon-tearsDigital art “Tear” created in December 2016.


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SOLITUDE DESCENDING…

 

“Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle.”

 

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ~

 

000-solitude-descendingDigitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken sometime in 1989.


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ISOLATION

 

“We’re all islands shouting lies to each other
across seas of misunderstanding.”

 

~ Rudyard Kipling ~

 

000 isolationPhoto of Baltasar Lobo’s untitled sculpture taken in Le Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2016.


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