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• I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be lonesome where everything is wild and beautiful and busy and steeped with God that the question is hard to answer.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Lonely, Self

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• The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.

  Evan Esar

  Loneliness, Men, Survival

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• I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road

  Bob Dylan

  Faith, Practice, Long

  Song: Ain't Talkin', Album: Modern Times, 2006

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• You know, making an animated movie is such a lonesome thing. You mostly don't see your fellow actors or anything. You go into your booth, you record all your dialogue. It's very much an issue of trust. You leave it all up to the director.

  Julie Andrews

  Issues, Directors, Actors

  "InDepth InterView: Julie Andrews Talks Despicable Me, Obama, GLEE, Hollywood & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. July 21, 2010.

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• I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand. I was thinking to myself, 'There's five billion people here but we've never been more isolated.' The only result of the aggressive individualism we pursue is that you lose sight of your compassion and we go to bed at night thinking, 'Is this all there is?' because we don't feel fulfilled.

  Devin Townsend

  Night, Thinking, Compassion

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• No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice.

  Liam Neeson

  Lonely, Men, Islands

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an hour, the trees wail, little animals skitter in the mud and everything gets dark and goes completely wild. But it is really God - playing music in his favourite cathedral in heaven - shattering stained glass - playing a gigantic organ - thundering on the keys - perfect harmony - perfect joy.

  Joan Baez

  Dark, Animal, Keys

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Mother, Memories, World

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Desolate--Life is so dreary and desolate--
  Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle,
  Yet with itself every soul standeth single,
  Deep out of sympathy moaning its moan--
  Holding and having its brief exultation--
  Making its lonesome and low lamentation--
  Fighting its terrible conflicts alone.

  Alice Cary

  Fighting, Men, Soul

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.180

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• From my table inside I watch the glamorous women outside who are lunching on Spa Cobb salads without blue cheese or dressing. The man with the bread basket wanders from table to table, lonesome as a cloud. When he comes to me his basket is full and perfectly arranged. He gives me a smile of sincere pleasure when I tell him I will take both the sourdough roll and the cheese stick.

  Ann Patchett

  Food, Men, Clouds

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• I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.

  Alice Childress

  Jobs, Loneliness, Reports

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• Fire up your heart for the wind is getting cold, now it always gets cold for the riders of the night. When you carry that dream when you know what lonesome is looking for a home like a bird in flight.

  Jon Stewart

  Dream, Home, Heart

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• I say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.

  Waylon Jennings

  Religious, Tired, Mean

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• Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.

  Joan Baez

  Nature, Storm, Things Change

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.

  Emily Dickinson

  Self, House, Brain

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.184, Harvard University Press

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• Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Children, Hate

  Song: Fixin' To Die Blues, Album: Bob Dylan, 1962

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• On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rainy Day, Men, Doe

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• Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill Wittliff's photographs, we have a third generation of Lonesome Dove artistry. The same creative power and conviction that allowed Larry McMurtry to transform a workaday scenario for an unproduced screenplay into one of the greatest novels of our time, and that transformed that novel into the greatest western movie ever made, are on display in this collection. A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove is a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece.

  Stephen Harrigan

  Book, Creative, Lonesome Dove

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• A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

  John Steinbeck

  Stars, Loneliness, Teaching

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.441, Penguin

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• I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".

  Robert Duvall

  Wise, Two, Lonesome Dove

  "Robert Duvall Shines in the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2006.

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• You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things… Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

  Amy Poehler

  Real, Heart, Airplane

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me.

  Woody Guthrie

  Journey, Land, Hiking

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• The problem is that the way [President] Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion dollars for the first 42 presidents - number 43 added $4 trillion dollars by his lonesome - so that we now have over $9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back. [That's] $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Men, Numbers

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• Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable children. Unconfined By shroud or coffin, disembodied souls, Uneasy spirits, steal into the air From festering graveyards when the curfew tolls At the day's death... And wheresoever murders have been done, In stately palaces or lonesome woods, Where'er a soul has sold itself and lost Its high inheritance, there, hovering, broods Some sad, invisible, accurséd Ghost!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Children, Night, Light

  Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1859). “The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”, p.113

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• The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Sadness, World, Saws

  Song: Billy Dee

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