Acquaintance Quote by Anonymous

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Why do deprivation, adversity, scarcity, and suffering often produce the best character qualities in us while prosperity, ease, and abundance often produce the worst?…

— Bianca Olthoff

Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life

— Napoleon Hill

“Lonely people were not faking their symptoms. Their own bodies were reacting to loneliness at a cellular level, trying to nudge them to make…

— Barbara Bradley Hagerty

“The number of her acquaintances multiplied over the years as the number of her true friendships diminished. The Grant Longitudinal Study found that people…

— David Brooks

…nothing remained but loneliness and grief…

— Louisa May Alcott

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Loneliness is not only positively characterized by a certain degree of isolation, but is negatively characterized by a deficiency of participation.”

— Stephen Batchelor

Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have…

— Grenville Kleiser

People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife,…

— Robert J. Waldinger

of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to…

— Zelda Popkin

Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one.

— Gena Showalter