Friendship Quote by John Steinbeck

“... and for the first time he realized the pain inevitable in any human relationship - pain suffered and pain inflicted. How foolish we…

— Anonymous

“I felt for the first time the premonitory of loneliness.It was all fantastic, and yet, and yet...He might be a poor lover, but I…

— Graham Greene

“He looked at the people walking about and envied them because they had friends; sometimes his envy turned to hatred because they were happy…

— William Somerset Maugham

“He would be lonely all his life. But a man took it for his share and went on.”

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”

— Aristotle

“Men could be drunk with pride, with passion, or with power. They could be drunken with hatred, or with the lust of gain.”

— Patricia Wentworth

“A long time ago. I came to the understanding that all men are friends by convenience and enemies by choice.”

— John Christopher

“...he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all.”

— Nick Hornby

“...there seemed some necessity of taking all or nothing; it was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I would rather live out on the desert alone, like an old prospector. All I needed was a small water source. What was the…

— Janet Fitch

“Loneliness was just like winter, he decided. Cold and pervasive, trapping you inside your own head because what was outside was so inhospitable. Was…

— J.R. Ward

“I am a . . . solitary . . . man, he said. 'I do not suffer fools gladly, and I prefer to spend…

— Andrew Lane