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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 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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• That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off of the miniseries, and I played Col. Mosby, a very dangerous, Southern colonel in post-Civil War, wandering the West.

  Eric McCormack

  Real, War, Southern

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• There are happy blues, sad blues, lonesome blues, red-hot blues, mad blues, and loving blues. Blues is a testimony to the fullness of life.

  Corey Harris

  Fullness Of Life, Mad, Hot

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• Only the rich are lonesome.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Rich

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2013). “The Sport of the Gods”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Once the day's work starts there is little chance to walk, to ride or to take part in a game. Taking walks or rides early in the morning is a lonesome business, and the inevitable Secret Service guard when the president leaves the White House grounds is not enlivening company.

  Herbert Hoover

  Morning, White, Games

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The cabinet and the presidency, 1920-1933”

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• What you have felt and thought will by itself invent a new style, so that when people talk about style they are always a little astonished at the newness of it, because they think that it is only style that they are talking about, when what they are talking about is the attempt to express a new idea with such force that it will have the originality of the thought.It is an awfully lonesome business, and, as you know, I never wanted you to go into it, but if you are going into it at all, I want you to go into it knowing the sort of things that took me years to learn.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Talking, Years

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.512, Simon and Schuster

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• [Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Rainy Day, Visits You

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• The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.

  John Oates

  Brother, Wake Up, Records

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• ... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.

  Charles Dickens

  Loneliness, House, Kitten

  Charles Dickens (1850). “Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People ; with a Frontispiece by George Cruikshank”, p.16

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• A dog pours a pitcher of love into the lonesome spots of your life.

  Kimberly Willis Holt

  Dog, Spots, Pitcher

  Kimberly Willis Holt (2015). “Dear Hank Williams”, p.141, Macmillan

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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

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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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• I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.

  Elvis Presley

  Crowds, Sometimes, Middle

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When we started the show [Lonesome Dove], Suzanne De Passe - who had done the original miniseries and still owned the property and was turning it into this series - she brought in a lot of old friends - Diahann Carroll and Billy Dee Williams and Dennis Weaver. And we had an interesting collection off the top of these old seasoned actors. Billy Dee was lovely and iconic.

  Eric McCormack

  Interesting, Old Friends, Lonesome Dove

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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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• Who hath seen the Phantom Ship,
  Her lordly rise and lowly dip,
  Careering o'er the lonesome main,
  No port shall know her keel again...
  Ah, woe is in the awful sight,
  The sailor finds there eternal night,
  'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep,
  And Ocean will the secret keep

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Ocean, Sleep, Night

  Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Albert Pinkham Ryder (1918). “Loan exhibition of the works of Albert P. Ryder”

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• According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The first thing that came out of man is the blues because, according to the Scriptures, when God made man, man was lonesome and blue.

  Willie Dixon

  Biblical, Men, Blue

  Willie Dixon, Don Snowden (1989). “I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story”

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• I'm convinced that theatre is a horrible business. Make this the headline. You have to be on the spot every night as an actor. You are damn lonesome standing out there.

  Walter D. Asmus

  Night, Theatre, Actors

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