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“The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.”

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Author:Evan Esar

“I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.”

Jobs Loneliness Reports Lonesome

Author:Alice Childress

“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”

“... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.”

House Loneliness Kitten Lonesome Copper

Book:Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People ; with a Frontispiece by George Cruikshank

Source: Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People ; with a Frontispiece by George Cruikshank

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

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Author:Oscar Levant

“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.”

“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."”

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Author:John Steinbeck

“You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.”

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Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“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.”

“I want to be left alone.”

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Author:Greta Garbo

“In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.”

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Author:Geoffrey Fisher

“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.”

Trying Feelings Stars Animal Teaching Loneliness Communicate Signals Observing Lonesome Lonesomeness

Book:Steinbeck: A Life in Letters

Source: Steinbeck: A Life in Letters

“Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?”

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Book:How to Talk Dirty and Influence People

Source: How to Talk Dirty and Influence People

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

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Author:Joyce Rachelle

“To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison.”