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

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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

  Robert Duvall

  Thinking, Lonesome Dove, Stills

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• It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Sports, Cheer, People

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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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• City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cities, People

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• We have probably wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is safe to be relaxed, to expose ourselves to someone else, and to give unconditionally. It might be very small and hidden, but if this corner exists, it calls for a search through the complexities of our human relationships in order to find it.

  Henri Nouwen

  Order, Giving, World

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2005). “The Dance of Life: Weaving Sorrows and Blessings Into One Joyful Step”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

  Tamora Pierce

  Needs, Dove

  "The Big Bang Theory: The Proton Regeneration". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2017.

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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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• 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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• He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.

  Larry McMurtry

  Moon, Men, Sky

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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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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