dots-menu
×

Home  »  A Dictionary of Similes  »  Lonely

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Lonely

Lonely as a deserted ship.
—Anonymous

Lonely as a ghost.
—Anonymous

Lonely as a trance.
—Hartley Coleridge

Lonely as a crow in a strange country.
—Joseph Conrad

There is nothing so lonely in the world as the girl who has got to look after herself.
—Joseph Conrad

As lonely as the sun.
—Sir Francis H. Doyle

Lonely as the Arctic Sea.
—Hamlin Garland

Lonely in her gloom as a pale Angel of the Grove.
—Thomas Moore

Lonely as the home of kings
When the slow hours on leaden wings
Oppress the friendless great.
—Lewis Morris

Lonely, as sovereigns are.
—Ouida

Lonely as a catamount.
—Sam Slick

Lonely as in a garden-close
Slumbers the solitary rose.
—Arthur Symons

Lonely … as a crow on the sands.
—William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills.
—William Wordsworth