Lonesomeness Quotes

• The memory of Cumshewa is of a great lonesomeness smothered in a blur of rain.

  Emily Carr

  Memories, Rain, Blur

  Emily Carr (2009). “Klee Wyck”, p.40, D & M Publishers

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• When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Humility, Class, Feelings

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• 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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• 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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• When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Song, Angel, Jealous

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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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• City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cities, People

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

  J. D. Salinger

  Lonesome, Felt, Holden Caulfield

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

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Moon, Full Moon, Lonesome

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

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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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• 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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• I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a car, / because not only my lonesomeness / it's Ours, all over America, / O tender fellows --/ & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy / in the moon 100 years ago or in / the middle of Kansas now.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Moon, Men, Years

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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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• The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.

  Matthew West

  Christian, People, Together

  FaceBook post by Matthew West from Mar 04, 2015

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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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• Somebody finally has to get out an ad, often after hours. Somebody has to stare at a blank piece of paper. Probably nothing was ever more bleak. This is probably the very height of lonesomeness. He is one person and he is alone

  Fairfax M. Cone

  Business, After Hours, Pieces

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