Carl Sandburg
Poet, Biographer
"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."
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Lonesome
13 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Truman Capote
Author, Journalist
"Are the dead as lonesome as the living?"
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Be good and you'll be lonesome"
John Steinbeck
Novelist, Journalist
"We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome."
J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead."
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"We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now."
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