Top 138 Lonesome Quotes & Sayings

I say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.

Laughter kills lonesome. It's one of the great things in our lives.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

The wolf pack will die when scattered by man, lonesome coyote survives.

Only the rich are lonesome.

I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.

I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.

I did an album called 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.' I sang the song on 'Hee Haw.'

Be good and you'll be lonesome

I'm so proud and honored to have been in 'Lonesome Dove' and 'Eight Men Out.' How come I'm not known for one of those?

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

I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.

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

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

I'm convinced that theatre is a horrible business. Make this the headline. You have to be on the spot every night as an actor. You are damn lonesome standing out there.

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

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

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

The best time is during the struggle. The top of the mountain is usually small, freezing and lonesome. To this day I'm continually reinvesting myself in something new. I'm not afraid to start as a beginner in anything.

Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill Wittliff's photographs, we have a third generation of Lonesome Dove artistry. The same creative power and conviction that allowed Larry McMurtry to transform a workaday scenario for an unproduced screenplay into one of the greatest novels of our time, and that transformed that novel into the greatest western movie ever made, are on display in this collection. A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove is a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece.

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.

Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.

I really don't like that modern notion of 'I don't need anyone.' I see a lot of young women feeling they have to be that way, they have to be hard, in a way. And what does that bring them? They're just going to be lonesome. They're going to be, at best, lonesome and capable, at worst, lonesome and hard. And is that what we want? No.

If I had my way, I'd love to see 'Wolverine' in a cosmic adventure all by his lonesome.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.

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

I'd probably sit around the house and get lonesome if I didn't have something to do.

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

Certainly 'Lonesome Dove' would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married. I didn't have kids.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.

In the town of broken dreams the streets are filled with regret, maybe down in lonesome town I can learn to forget.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind.

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

The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.

'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author's writing.

The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before.

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

They're such different things [Townies and Lonesome Dove]. I certainly love them both. Certainly Lonesome Dove would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married.

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."

Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.

It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.

I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

A dog pours a pitcher of love into the lonesome spots of your life.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

Last word in lonesome is me.

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.

It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.