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Found 32 posts tagged ‘loneliness’

This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea – September 12, 2018

"I am THE Loneliness: God is Loneliness, and Loneliness God." From The Idler, 1894.

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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News

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#vintage illustration #loneliness #god #the sea

Restoring the Lost Sense – July 17, 2017

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"What good times everybody was having—everybody but herself!" From English Illustrated, 1897.

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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#vintage illustration #loneliness #solitude #left out #ostracized #excluded #illustration

Images Moving Through Time – June 3, 2017

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"Seldom counted in." From Popular Mechanics, 1926.

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#vintage illustration #loneliness #left out #illustration #uninvited #social isolation #unfriended #art

Old News – May 26, 2017

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"Friendly but friendless." From Popular Mechanics, 1926.

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#vintage ad #loneliness #vintage headline #friendless #social isolation #unfriended #headline #ad

Restoring the Lost Sense – February 12, 2017

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"Separated from her lover. She lived only for his letters." From Wayside Tales, 1906.

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#vintage illustration #loneliness #illustration #separation #waiting to hear back

Restoring the Lost Sense – November 20, 2016

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"Alone with despair," from Once a Week, 1874.

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#vintage illustration #bat #despair #loneliness #human headed #vampire #1870s #illustration #snake hair

The Right Word – September 20, 2016

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"The letter that I didn't write is here," altho' it's only a wish. From 1911.

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#loneliness #vintage postcard #unwritten #postcard

Restoring the Lost Sense – November 14, 2015

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"Desolation deified," from Rambles Round Rossendale by J. Marshall Mather, 1888.

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#vintage illustration #angel #misery #desolation #loneliness #anguish #emptiness #deification #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – March 8, 2015

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"Alone in space." From Fifteen Hundred Miles an Hour by Charles Dixon, 1895.

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#vintage illustration #science fiction #space travel #loneliness #space suit #solitude #illustration #space walk #mission to mars

Do-Re-Midi – February 27, 2015

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In other words, lay bare your agony moderately slowly with loving expression. Lyric by William Smyth (1765-1849).

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#misery #despair #desolation #loneliness #anguish #heartache #grief #sheet music #broken heart #torment #sorrow #suffering #angst #distress #sadness #agony #self-expression

Restoring the Lost Sense – September 3, 2014

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"Alone in the ruin of her world," from There Once Was a Prince by Mary E. Mann, 1896.

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#vintage illustration #chaos #loneliness #solitude #illustration #ruination

Forgotten Wisdom – February 25, 2013

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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook. "Every soul is alone. Alone with that secret bestower of torture and pleasure, the horned snail behind the pigsty!" —John Cowper Powys, Wolf Solent

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#vintage illustration #mythology #soul #snail #loneliness #solitude #John Cowper Powys #wolf solent