Lonesome Quotes

• May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Nature, Adventure

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.12, University of Arizona Press

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• A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

  John Cheever

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  1966 Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.

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• Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

  Paul Tillich

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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• I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

  Edith Wharton

  Hands, Sick, Care

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1241, Delphi Classics

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• Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Sarcastic, Loneliness

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• You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

  Emily Carr

  Loneliness, Political, World

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.69, D & M Publishers

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• Be good and you'll be lonesome

  Mark Twain

  Be Good

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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• To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.

  Robert Duvall

  Thinking, Lonesome Dove, Stills

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• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  Carl Sandburg

  Moon, Full Moon, Lonesomeness

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.665, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae

  Larry McMurtry

  Men, Gus, Want

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• The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Reading, Rainy Day, Pity

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• Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Ugly, Loser, Made

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• The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

  Larry McMurtry

  Violin, Aging, Dove

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.

  Larry McMurtry

  Disappointment, Everyday Things, Healthy

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• I want to be left alone.

  Greta Garbo

  Lonely, Fear, Loneliness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

  Thornton Wilder

  Two, People, Our Town

  Rachmael ben Avram, Thornton Wilder, William Shakespeare (1969). “The act and the image: Including Our town”

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• My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

  Jane Horrocks

  Mom, Baby, Memories

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• Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

  Leon Redbone

  Dream, Mean, Joy

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• Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Awake, Hard

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• City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cities, People

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• We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

  John Steinbeck

  Animal, Trying

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• We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."

  John Steinbeck

  Loneliness, Animal, Trying

  "In Awe of Words". The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University, 1930.

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