Lonesome

Famous quotes containing the word lonesome:

“Life’s an awfully lonesome affair.... 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.”
—Emily Carr (1871–1945)

“... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“When my body leaves me
I’m lonesome for it.
but body
goes away to I don’t know where
and it’s lonesome to drift
above the space it
fills when it’s here.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)