Single Friend Quotes

#1. Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.

John Spence

#2. Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

William Cowper

#3. Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.

Edwin Way Teale

#4. A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.

Leo Buscaglia

#5. And Aedan discovered that it only takes a single friend to put loneliness to flight. He would be able to face the next day. They both would.

Jonathan Renshaw

#6. A single rose can be a garden ... a single friend, my world.

Leo Buscaglia

#7. How should they know? I can't reveal
to a single friend what my soul conceals,
whom I'm in love with or what I believe -
my dreams, my thoughts - or why I grieve.

Hristo Botev

#8. If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.

Andreas Capellanus

#9. It had taken her whole life to make a single friend. And here these girls had become best friends in minutes as if making friends was the simplest thing in the world. Agatha pricked with shame.

Soman Chainani

#10. It wasn't that I didn't know anyone's phone number - I didn't - it was that only at this moment did I realize I had no one to call. There wasn't a woman, a colleague, or even a relative that I had to contact. Didn't I have a single friend?

Adam Johnson

#11. My Dear Friend,
Don't ever allow yourself to forget how incredibly special you are, even for a single second. Without you, the world would not be as magnificent. Let yourself remember to love again, starting with you loving you.

Miya Yamanouchi

#12. The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

Emma Goldman

#13. At least Georgie was probably going to be one of those cool single women, one with an interesting job and a dashing best friend and good hair. She could probably have halfway decent one-night stands if she loosened up her standards.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single glimpse of clean, hard, radiant competence. She had fits of tortured longing for a friend or enemy with a mind better than her own.

Ayn Rand

#15. Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

William Shenstone

#16. I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it's already written.

Piroska Rodriguez

#17. It's not something you tell your single best friend. It'd be like rubbing your nose in the poop of my happiness.

Shannon Hale

#18. I didn't have cable when 'Breaking Bad' started, so I came to it late and kept waiting for a friend to watch it with, and could not find a single person who was not already into Season 3 and didn't refuse to start watching it from the beginning.

Rhea Seehorn

#19. Angels exist; sometimes they're your best friend and other times they are someone you met a single time or know only by name, but they are angels just the same.

J.D. Stroube

#20. I can't stand cell phones and I don't know one single thing about the computer. I have a friend come that lives in my building to check if I have emails. I don't even know what to google.

Brigid Berlin

#21. Owning a dog is like having a demanding manner-less friend who never bathes themselves but which somehow ends up spending every single night on your couch.

Matte Resist

#22. Tea-
The sweetness of love,
The fragrance of flowers,
The comfort of a friend,
The warmth of a hug
-Such great delight gingerly poured from a single pink teapot.

Zakiyya Rosebelle

#23. My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.

Gaby Hoffmann

#24. I'm mesmerized by the way he speaks - New Orleans is pronounced N'awlins. When he says backyard, it's backyaaad. It's the kind of voice that makes you feel instantly at home, like you're a close friend or part of the inner circle.
- SINGLE-MINDED

Lisa Daily

#25. No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!

Daniel J. Levitin

#26. My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.

Maria Shriver

#27. A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.

Brian Selznick

#28. There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is "sympathy" - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will.

Timothy Keller

#29. Part Five: The Single Hound
XVIII
THERE is another Loneliness
That many die without,
Not want or friend occasions it,
Or circumstances or lot.
But nature sometimes, sometimes thought, 5
And whoso it befall
Is richer than could be divulged
By mortal numeral.

Emily Dickinson

#30. I cannot believe that everything must be subordinated to a single end. There are means which cannot be excused.

Albert Camus

#31. Kate, I'll say it like this. Vincent is my best friend. There's not a person in this world I'm closer to. But for the past year, I have betrayed him in my heart every single day because I want for myself what he loves the very most.

Amy Plum

#32. But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.

Helen Fielding

#33. I was at a family friend's house and in true Jamaican style we celebrated with food. I relived every single emotionit was a moving experience. I am super-happy with all the love and support I am getting from my Jamaicans and Caribbean people.

Tessanne Chin

#34. The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your children. Kids need parents, not just another pal. This means being able and willing to say no, to challenge faulty thinking, and to expect accountability.

Steve Biddulph

#35. Remember: If you go for a walk with a friend in England, don't say a single word for hours; if you go for a walk with your dog, talk to it all the time.

George Mikes

#36. But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you ... more proud ...

Anna Akhmatova

#37. When a friend introduced me to a Bach chaconne, he started by describing it by saying that it has 256 measures (256=2^8) divided into 4 sections of 64 measures (64=2^6), and I liked it even before I heard a single note.

James Stein

#38. Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet it can be satisfied with merely one single reader: an old friend, a lover.

Lu Xun

#39. The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

Aristotle.

#40. A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.

A.A. Milne

#41. True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#42. There was Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, an aloof superstar who had everything and needed no one. And Michael Jackson, the shy kid under the mask, who lacked even a single real friend.

Michael Jackson

#43. I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... . But I don't seem to have a single real friend!

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#44. I shot her because she had just killed my best friend and my worst enemy with a single hand -grenade.
This episode made me sorry to be alive , made me envy stones.
I would rather have been a stone at the service of the Natural Order

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#45. Is this your boyfriend?" the first nun asked.
Clair Olivia looked me up and down. "No. This is my gay friend who decided he was straight and single-handedly wrecked havoc at an all-boys school in Massachusetts this fall. He's gay again and home for Christmas, so yay!

Bill Konigsberg

#46. I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

Dave Barry

#47. Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they're great people.

Taylor Swift

#48. But over and above the offers of help and love, precious and determined though they are, is the fact that we are public knowledge. Our signal has been heard. By each response a friend is activated. Our message had a single note. Here is its returning chord.

Marion Coutts

#49. Finally he closed the distance between us and kissed me - a sweet, gentle kiss that held within it every single one of the thousand days I'd loved him as my everything, long after I'd begun to love him as a friend.

Aimee Carter

#50. I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!

Harbhajan Singh

#51. It is ironic that the only thing separating 'friend' from 'fiend' - is a single letter.

Christina Engela

#52. I'd just single handedly given the love of my life to my best friend - on a silver platter, with a shiny bow attached.

Rachel Van Dyken

#53. We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend; never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful.

Francois Fenelon

#54. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle.