Quote by Pat Conroy

“I meditated on the nature of friendship as I practiced the craft. My friends had always come from outside the mainstream. I had always…

— Pat Conroy

“I wrote that outsiders were often lonely, but they needed to be to change the world around them. And they understood loyalty far better…

— Julian North

“I wasn't popular, but I wasn't an outcast. I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by myself.”

— Trevor Noah

“Well, if I cannot be sensible and popular at the same time, then I will always choose the virtue rather than the friends.”

— Thomas Cullinan

“Even if I had friends or people around me it did not matter anymore, I always felt isolated and unique from all around me.…

— Patricia Dsouza

“Hanging with people who make you feel unappreciated, for the mere sake of appearing to be popular, is the loneliest place to be.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“It is in the character of very few people to honour a prosperous friend without envy, and these very few people tend to become…

— Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar

“I saw the other loners the way everyone else did-as unappealing, as to be avoided at all costs. If I hung out with one…

— Gail Carson Levine

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with…

— Joshua Slocum

“As far as my connection to other people went, I was usually affectionate. I was usually fond of the people I met: the privileged.…

— Wallace Shawn

“Sadly we live in a society where it is more popular to be popular than to be honorable, audacious and worthy.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.”

— Caroline Green