Lonesomeness Quotes:

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

- J. D. Salinger

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

topic: Lonesome, Felt, Lonesomeness, Holden Caulfield

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

- Emily Carr

topic: Memories, Rain, Blur, Lonesomeness

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

topic: Humility, Class, Feelings, Lonesomeness

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

source: Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.12, University of Arizona Press

topic: Nature, Journey, Clouds, Lonesome, Leading Causes

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

topic: Stars, Loneliness, Teaching, Lonesome, Lonesomeness

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

topic: Song, Angel, Jealous, Lonesomeness

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Life, Cities, People, Lonesome, Lonesomeness

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

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Moon, Lonesome, Lonesomeness, Full Moon

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

- Oscar Levant

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Loneliness, Lonesome, Lonesomeness

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

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

topic: People, Television, Entertainment, Lonesome, Lonesomeness

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

topic: Moon, Men, Years, Lonesomeness

I want to be left alone.

- Greta Garbo

topic: Atheism, Want, Left Alone, Lonesome, Lonesomeness

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

- Matthew West

source: FaceBook post by Matthew West from Mar 04, 2015

topic: Christian, People, Together, Christian Life, Lonesomeness

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

source: 1966 Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.

topic: Lonely, Being Alone, Autumn, Gin, Lonesome

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

topic: Business, After Hours, Pieces, Lonesomeness