“We made for him a great dinner of honor. At this dinner I said to him, for the last time, I thought, "Goodbye, dear friend, topic of my life, now we part." And to myself I said further: Finished. This is your lonesome bed. A lady what they call fat and fifty. You made it personally. From this lonesome bed you will finally fall to a bed not so lonesome, only crowded with a million bones.”
"Goodbye and Good Luck" (1959)
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“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome.”
“In Awe of Words,” The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University (1930)
Context: 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.

The Sixties, 1966 entry.
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because we don't feel fulfilled.
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Dum vivimus vigilamus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Song; the title is variously given as Tears in my ears, I've got tears in my ears and I've got tears in my ears from lyin' on my back in my bed while I cry over you.

“The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.”

“The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to”