"About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the wind increasing to a gale. The waves rose high, but I had a good ship. Still, in the dismal fog I felt myself drifting into loneliness, an insect on the straw in the midst of the elements."

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Source : Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.238, Sheridan House, Inc.

Joshua Slocum

#Loneliness Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Fog Quotes

“I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.”
“I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did.”
“Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.”
“Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you, so can the things it brought.”
“...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica, and other glaciers? Was it because the heat was buried in the ocean and sequestered, perhaps well below the surface?...Perhaps all of these things are going on?”
“I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.”
“Life isn't supposed to be easy. Generally speaking, the harder something is the more rewarding the results will be.”
“One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”

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