Quotes About Lonesomeness

#1. Little smoke couldn't be noticed now, so we would take some fish off of the lines and cook up a hot breakfast. And afterwards we would watch the lonesomeness of the river, and kind of lazy along, and by and by lazy off to sleep.

Mark Twain

#2. By and large over time, pain turns into grief, grief turns into silence, and silence turns into lonesomeness, as vast and bottomless as the dark oceans

Elif Shafak

#3. Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. But the awful lonesomeness is intolerable. The intense concentration of self in the middle of such a heartless immensity, my God! who can tell it?

Herman Melville

#4. 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

#5. I know what to think when a young girl shivers by a warm hearth and complains of lonesomeness at her mother's side. Shall I put these feelings into words?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Emily Carr

#7. 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

#8. I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.

Kahlil Gibran

#9. But Judge's lonesomeness was no longer comforting; it was horrific and painful. Judge

A.E. Via

#10. A generous heart is never lonesome. A generous heart has luck. The lonesomeness of contemporary life is partly due to the failure of generosity. Increasingly we complete with each other for the goods, for image, and status.

John O'Donohue

#11. 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

#12. It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days, knowing frost is nigh and wind needling through the cabin chinks is just around the bend. That's me, right now.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#13. Forget all you know & learn something every day.

Charles James

#14. Salvation is not a blessing to be enjoyed upon the dying bed, and to be sung of in a future state above, but a matter to be obtained, received, promised, and enjoyed now.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. Weapons of mass destruction are always in the wrong hands.

Deepak Chopra

#16. Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned.

Tamra Davis

#17. The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

George Crumb

#18. The glory of God is humankind fully alive.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#19. Benedict somehow found the words he needed. "I give up, Evander. All the battles, the fights. The walls. Broken, defeated, breached. You've won.

Jae T. Jaggart

#20. It would seem, from this, that the people of Omanorion had mastered the ultra-civilized art of minding their own business.

Clark Ashton Smith

#21. We have to tell each other the little things, the bad things. Maybe they'll hurt for a while, but at least they won't become big things. If we don't, we're just going to keep hurting each other. And I don't want to do that anymore.

Veronica Rossi

#22. And on cold wintry nights she loves listening to Elvis croon "Are you lonesome tonight?" just as I do.

Avijeet Das

#23. But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.

L.M. Montgomery

#24. Some people move our souls to dance.

Flavia Weedn

#25. If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.

Joyce Rachelle

#26. Elevate your inside game. A negative attitude is below the horizon ... a place for lonesome hearts.

T.F. Hodge

#27. The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species.

Rick Strassman