Lonesome Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Television, Entertainment

  "Anti-TV guerrillas wield their new zapper" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2005.

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• We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New Friends, Can't Change, Knows

  "Vonnegut at 80". Interview with David Hoppe, www.nuvo.net. January 1, 2003.

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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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• I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.

  Tommy Lee

  Hate, Men, Rude

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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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• I want to be left alone.

  Greta Garbo

  Lonely, Fear, Loneliness

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

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• In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Country, Lonely, Loneliness

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• May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.

  Edward Abbey

  Dog, Rain, Eye

  "Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside". Book by Edward Abbey ("Preface" (dated October 1983), pp. 16-17), 1984.

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• And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

  Candace Wheeler

  Grief, Loss, Land

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• Look down - look down that lonesome road
  Before you travel on

  Frank Sinatra

  Song, Travel, Looks

  Song: Lonesome Road, The, Album: A Swingin' Affair!

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• Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over. Please don't tell me how the story ends.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Echoes, Forbidden Love, Forever

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• Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Down And, Poverty

  Song: Broke Down Engine, Album: World Gone Wrong, 1993

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• Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Regret, Philosophy, Lying

  Song: That's What Living Is To Me, Album: Hot Water, 1988

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• Last word in lonesome is me.

  Eddy Arnold

  Lasts, Last Words

  Song: The Last Word In Lonesome Is Me

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• It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Crowds, Mental Health, Middle

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• The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

  Carson McCullers

  Long, People, Trouble

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.260, HMH

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• I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.

  J. D. Salinger

  Felt, Lonesomeness, Holden Caulfield

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

  Mark Twain

  Two, Smoking, Balance

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• They're such different things [Townies and Lonesome Dove]. I certainly love them both. Certainly Lonesome Dove would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married.

  Eric McCormack

  Mean, Lonesome Dove, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't remember a voice
  On a dark, lonesome road
  When I started this journey so long ago
  I was only just trying to outrun the noise
  There was never a question of having a choice

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Dark, Journey, Long Ago

  Song: The Calling, Album: The Calling

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• All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

  Euripides

  Children, Mean, Men

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?

  Lenny Bruce

  Loneliness, Nice, Sleep

  Lenny Bruce (1992). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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