As Reba McIntire says, the heart is a lonely hunter. but the lonely sea is its spear So we go and dive into the sea seeking to ride out our loneliness till we hunt no more with our heart In other words, at least here in America we have a phrase like from sea to shining sea in one of our songs God Bless America Loneliness is a state of mind where we're fooking for a sign to explain the times as if the line in the cave analogy of Plato's Republic represents a fife and death matter for alf of us all the time (not that all of us know about Plato) and house the loneliness.