Lonesomeness Quotes

Collection of famous quotes and sayings about Lonesomeness.

Quotes About Lonesomeness

Enjoy collection of 22 Lonesomeness quotes. Download and share images of famous quotes about Lonesomeness. Righ click to see and save pictures of Lonesomeness quotes that you can use as your wallpaper for free.

She had found a jewel down inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around. But she had been set in the market-place to sell. Been set for still bait. When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Then after that 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 made them hunt for one another, but the mud is deaf and dumb. Like all the other tumbling mud-balls, Janie had tried to show her shine. ~ Zora Neale Hurston
Lonesomeness quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God. ~ Matthew West
Lonesomeness quotes by Matthew West
The memory of Cumshewa is of a great lonesomeness smothered in a blur of rain. ~ Emily Carr
Lonesomeness quotes by Emily Carr
I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead. ~ J.D. Salinger
Lonesomeness quotes by J.D. Salinger
You've seed how things goes in the world o' men. You've knowed men to be low-down and mean. You've seed ol' Death at his tricks ... Ever' man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. 'Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but 'tain't easy. Life knocks a man down and he gits up and it knocks him down agin. I've been uneasy all my life ... I've wanted life to be easy for you. Easier'n 'twas for me. A man's heart aches, seein' his young uns face the world. Knowin' they got to get their guts tore out, the way his was tore. I wanted to spare you, long as I could. I wanted you to frolic with your yearlin'. I knowed the lonesomeness he eased for you. But ever' man's lonesome. What's he to do then? What's he to do when he gits knocked down? Why, take it for his share and go on.
- Penny Baxter ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Lonesomeness quotes by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
If you feel you are right all the time, you will feel lonesome after some time. ~ Amit Kalantri
Lonesomeness quotes by Amit Kalantri
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
Lonesomeness quotes by Naomi Shihab Nye
If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me. ~ Joyce Rachelle
Lonesomeness quotes by Joyce Rachelle
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
Lonesomeness quotes by Fairfax M. Cone
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
Lonesomeness quotes by Elif Shafak
The boulderfields, the spaces empty of people--a lonesomeness city-dwellers could never comprehend. Sometimes it seems like you know animals more intimately than people. Beaver heads cutting wake in the water, bear shit jeweled with seeds, deer quenching themselves in the river's cool. Her family has lived here for three hundred years. But the place is wretchedly poor and backward and may never be right. ~ Matthew Neill Null
Lonesomeness quotes by Matthew Neill Null
I want to be left alone. ~ Greta Garbo
Lonesomeness quotes by Greta Garbo
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
Lonesomeness quotes by Herman Melville
He could tell Fleming he was a musician but he could not communicate what the music said to him or said to the people he played it for. The music told itself, it made some obscure connection for which there were no words. The music was its own story, but a man could dip into the vast reservoir of folk and blues lines and phrases and images and construct his own story: though upon performing it and without it losing any relevance to his own life it now belonged to the audience as well. It was something he could not fathom. The old songs with juryrigged verses like bodies cobbled up out of bones from a thousand skeletons. Songs about death and lost love and rambling down the line because sometimes down the line was the only place left. Songs that treated the most desperate of loss with a dark sardonic humour. "I'm going where the climate suits my clothes", the song said, not saying the frustration and despair that created it, saying that in the sheer lonesomeness of the sound, in the old man's driving banjo. There was an eerie timelessness about it that said it could have been written a thousand years ago, or it could have been an unfinished song about events that had not yet played themselves out. ~ William Gay
Lonesomeness quotes by William Gay
I am praising that famous individualism associated with Western and American myth ... Tightly knit communities in which members look to one another for identity, and to establish meaning and value, are disabled and often dangerous, however polished their veneer ... The cult of the individual is properly aesthetic and religious. The significance of every human destiny is absolute and equal ... Only lonesomeness allows one to experience this sort of radical singularity, one's greatest dignity and privilege. ~ Marilynne Robinson
Lonesomeness quotes by Marilynne Robinson
The man he was now, the personality his friends knew, had begun to grow strong during adolescence, during the years when he was always consciously or unconsciously conjugating the verb "to love"
in society and solitude, with people, with books, with the sky and open country, in the lonesomeness of crowded city streets. ~ Willa Cather
Lonesomeness quotes by Willa Cather
She knew that no part of this yearning made sense. Illogical behavior to fill an emptiness would not fulfill much more. How much do you trade to defeat lonesomeness? ~ Delia Owens
Lonesomeness quotes by Delia Owens
Cows ... weren't like people, with feelings of lonesomeness and worrying about what might happen next. That was just people, wasn't it? Sure, you could scare a cow, but wouldn't they get over it as soon as you let them be? They didn't stand around fretting about the next scare and the next and the next. ~ Katherine Paterson
Lonesomeness quotes by Katherine Paterson
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
Lonesomeness quotes by Allen Ginsberg
Elevate your inside game. A negative attitude is below the horizon ... a place for lonesome hearts. ~ T.F. Hodge
Lonesomeness quotes by T.F. Hodge
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. ~ Carl Sandburg
Lonesomeness quotes by Carl Sandburg
Now mind is clear
as a cloudless sky.
Time then to make a
home in wilderness.

What have I done but
wander with my eyes
in the trees? So I
will build: wife,
family, and seek
for neighbors.

Or I
perish of lonesomeness
or want of food or
lightning or the bear
(must tame the hart
and wear the bear).

And maybe make an image
of my wandering, a little
image - shrine by the
roadside to signify
to traveler that I live
here in the wilderness
awake and at home. ~ Allen Ginsberg
Lonesomeness quotes by Allen Ginsberg
Feeling Alone Quotes «
» Same Interests Quotes