Top 70 Quotes On Loneliness In Friendship
#1. Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looking for relief from loneliness in friendship, we are only going to frustrate the friendship. Friendship, camaraderie, intimacy, all those things, and loneliness lived together in the same experience.
Rich Mullins
#2. At that moment there was total clarity.Life was neither love nor duty.Life was not friendship or loneliness,pleasure or pain.Life was red,liquid and sticky,and it leaked through Snape's fingers as he struggled to stem the exodus of life from his body.
Rannaro
#3. Taggle looked up at her, his amber eyes as deep as the loneliness Kate had felt before he became her friend.
"The traditional thing," he said slowly, "involves the river and a sack.
Erin Bow
#4. Perhaps her requirements were too great,
Or her indulgence for human weakness too small,
For her attempts to form a friendship had always
Ended in disappointment.
A.L.O.E.
#5. He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.
Osamu Dazai
#6. God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.
Nikolai A. Berdyaev
#7. A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.
Jorge Luis Borges
#8. Human being can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. it iz the worst of all tortures,the worst of all sufferings.
Paul Coelho
#9. Because they saved me from myself, they rescued me from my loneliness. They were the first to accept me for who I am. They're my friends.
-Naruto Uzumaki
Masashi Kishimoto
#10. As much as he liked the idea of having best friends with whom he could share anything. it was like all he knew how to be was alone, apart.
Madeleine Roux
#11. And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'.
Sarah J. Maas
#12. I'm never going to be happy, but I could get close now, I think. I could be almost normal. I could have a friend.
Alyssa Brugman
#13. And that is one of the worst things about this life. As a liar, a pretend person, you cannot really truly ever be someone's friend. My American life, it is lonely. Often, it is very, very lonely.
Jillian Cantor
#14. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.
George R R Martin
#15. In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.
Sherwood Anderson
#16. Show me what you've written, I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.
Osamu Dazai
#17. If you weren't built for this life, you'd be dead by now. i think the problem is people don't share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in pain, too, and what others are going through. we're never really alone in anything.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#18. Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who feel for us as we feel for ourselves, who are bound to us in triumph and disaster, who break the spell of our loneliness.
Henry Alonso Myers
#19. The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#20. Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
Haruki Murakami
#21. Sometimes I think, What a man gonna do with all this media publicity, Photos in newspapers, photography in and among the industry, references and contacts when he cannot help a friend, when he has no family life, and not Even a dog to welcome him after work hours!
Himmilicious
#22. Loneliness cannot be reassured by proportion. Even friendship would have seemed to Pritchard a feast behind a pane of glass; even the smallest charity would have wet his lip, and left him wanting.
Eleanor Catton
#23. It was loneliness and insecurity that had brought Claudia to the chaos of madness. It was community, love, and friendship that finally brought her inner peace. This movement from chaos to inner peace, from self - hate to self - trust, began when Claudia realized that she was loved.
Jean Vanier
#24. Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.
Jeanne DuPrau
#25. For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.
Osamu Dazai
#26. Nico didn't respond. He'd never had anyone talk to him this openly before, except maybe for Hazel. He felt like he was watching a flock of birds settle on a field. One loud sound might startle them away.
Rick Riordan
#27. A lonely soul is the best friend of itself
Munia Khan
#28. Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.
Louis Orr
#29. Connection is life; disconnection, death.
Deborah Day
#30. Penelope? Thank you. For not leaving me alone to deal with this . . . when things got hard. other people would have. You're a true friend.
Svetlana Chmakova
#31. The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
Victor Hugo
#32. Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies - loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt - every time they come around.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#33. When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc
#34. It's about isolation and loneliness, but it's also about friendship. Being exactly what the other person needs.
Stephanie Perkins
#35. I have a hundred million fans, Angela, but I have very few friends.
Raynetta Manees
#36. Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed
Bell Hooks
#37. To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.
Fanny Burney
#38. The corner doesn't mind listening to the stupid things I say;
Sometimes it's the only one keeping me from running away.
And the corner never tells me things I'd rather never know;
We became the best of friends long, long, long ago.
Margo T. Rose
#39. Given the proper suggestion, the Subconscious Mind will manifest success from failure, health from disease, prosperity from poverty, friendship and love from loneliness and isolation. For nothing is impossible to the Subconscious Mind and it operates entirely by suggestion.
Uell Stanley Andersen
#40. A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#41. I ignore people who need me and latch on to people who don't. I dive into every other world except my own just because I want something more glamorous than my real life. I do destructive shit so a stupid hypocritical fish will like me.
I fall for fish instead of girls.
Hannah Moskowitz
#42. Friendship is what really resolves and mitigates loneliness while not compromising the self in the way that love does, romantic love does.
Chuck Palahniuk
#43. To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.
Stanley Hauerwas
#44. I know what it's like not to have friends. People need friends. Life's not much fun without them.
Michelle Harrison
#46. When we have no reason to be happy we often think to end ourselves, We often think we have no one in this world, it happens when our loved ones leave us and make us alone in this vast universe.
Debolina
#47. Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry ... I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.
Charles M. Schulz
#49. And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem of occupying space in the world and having a name people could call you by, being somebody they thought they could know
Aldous Huxley
#50. Steve, on the other hand, has plenty of friends, but he wouldn't bleed for any of them, because he wouldn't trust them to bleed for him. In that way he's just as alone as me.
Markus Zusak
#51. One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.
Dan Pearce
#52. I didn't have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what.
Jenny Han
#53. The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to herself that she was prepared to stand alone in the world.
Anthony Trollope
#54. In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked ...
Harold Brodkey
#55. Everybody on this planet shares a handful of universal emotional realities: ambition, shame, alienation, loneliness, achievement, regret, hardship, friendship, love, heartbreak. We've all experienced it. The facts change, the feelings are the same.
Mark Manson
#56. I could say it was the nights when I was lonely
and you were the only one who'd talk.
I could tell you that I like your sensitivity,
when you know it's the way that you walk.
Elvis Costello
#57. If you're constantly making yourself available to people's whims, your time will become less valuable. Keep your backbone in any relationship - make sure you're not so dedicated to it, and it shall stay sweet forever.
Auliq Ice
#58. Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk
Christopher Moore
#59. Only worse thing than being cold, and too tired to defend yourself, is to be cold and alone. And I wouldn't ever wish that on nobody.
Steven J. Carroll
#60. We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936
William Butler Yeats
#61. It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.
Alex Flinn
#62. The barriers between animal and human come down very easily. We belong to a single great family, and if we are lonely and unhappy we gladly accept the friendship of our distant relations.
Marlen Haushofer
#63. Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
#64. I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.
John Derbyshire
#65. What is society but an individual? [ ... ] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.
Osamu Dazai
#66. We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#67. Yes you have returned
And things are as they were
But this you cannot hide,
A part of you has died.
Joyce Rachelle
#68. Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.
Osamu Dazai
#69. Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.
Chris Raschka
#70. If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.
Joyce Rachelle
