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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.

    Dark   Animal   Keys  
    Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”
  • I want to be left alone.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    "InDepth InterView: Julie Andrews Talks Despicable Me, Obama, GLEE, Hollywood & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. July 21, 2010.
  • Look down - look down that lonesome road Before you travel on

    Song   Travel   Looks  
    Song: Lonesome Road, The, Album: A Swingin' Affair!
  • 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.

    Lonely   Men   Islands  
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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.

  • She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.

    Fall   People   House  
    Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    "Anti-TV guerrillas wield their new zapper" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2005.
  • 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 (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.512, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Moon   Men   Years  
  • All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

    Children   Mean   Men  
    Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”
  • In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

  • 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."

    "In Awe of Words". The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University, 1930.
  • 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 “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics
  • I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road

    Faith   Practice   Long  
    Song: Ain't Talkin', Album: Modern Times, 2006
  • 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.

    Rainy Day   Men   Doe  
  • We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

  • I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.

    Dog   Stars   Shining  
    Mark Twain (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.8, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.

    Dog   Rain   Eye  
    "Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside". Book by Edward Abbey ("Preface" (dated October 1983), pp. 16-17), 1984.
  • 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.

    Fighting   Men   Soul  
    Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.180
  • Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

    Success   Crazy   Book  
  • Be good and you'll be lonesome

    Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.24, St. Martin's Press
  • 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.

    Hands   Sick   Care  
    Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1241, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

    Self   House   Brain  
    Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.184, Harvard University Press
  • And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

    Grief   Loss   Land  
    Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”
  • We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.

    "Vonnegut at 80". Interview with David Hoppe, www.nuvo.net. January 1, 2003.
  • Only the rich are lonesome.

    Rich   Lonesome  
    Paul Laurence Dunbar (2013). “The Sport of the Gods”, p.69, Courier Corporation
  • I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.

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

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