I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not…

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

— Henry David Thoreau

“If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.”

— Joyce Rachelle

I want to be left alone.

— Greta Garbo

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…

— John Steinbeck

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

— Matthew West

Somebody finally has to get out an ad, often after hours. Somebody has to stare at a blank piece of paper. Probably nothing was…

— Fairfax M. Cone

“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…

— Mark Twain

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

— Emily Carr

“There are gaps in my education which no one could ever fill. But, they don't matter to me. I do not need to know…

— Anne Rice

“They always eased her lonesomeness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her.”

— Kristin Cashore

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

[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient…

— Clifton Fadiman

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.'

— Robert Duvall

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.

— Corey Harris

Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah…

— Zora Neale Hurston