Andre Maurois Quotes

I was in my early 30s, and I longed for real friendships and real relationships, and I started asking myself why I didn't have that. I had a couple of male friends, but every time I would hang out with them, it felt like there was something keeping us apart.

I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.

Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.

I think a lot of guys you see - there seems to be this thing where you can have all the fun in the world, but in the end of the day, there's no one to share it with.

I'd like to get back to my family and friends - believe it or not, I do have some real friends.

I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.

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

As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris

In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.

Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.

To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

It's a lot easier to find a friend on television than love.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with; you're just gonna end up lonely.

I really only have a few friends.

I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.