Scott Foley Quotes

I'm fascinated by adult women who don't have close friends and how that could come to be. I think when you're a kid, the relationships are so intimate, and you're so connected to your girls, so what becomes of them? What could possibly happen to have you become an adult woman and no longer have that?

I have a lot of guy friends, from martial arts and film, and soccer. I actually barely know women.

Sold my house in LA, packed myself up and moved to New York, not knowing anybody. Friends are very hard to make after a certain age.

My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.

I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.

I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual.

It's hard to create new friendships outside sports.

You know, I don't understand how a man goes through life without any friends.

I was always making new friends, then losing them.

I've got more friends than I've ever had in my life at the age of 39 - although given that I didn't have any friends until the age of 27, it doesn't say much - because I found the internet.

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.

People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their jobs. But the absence of any close friendships can lead to boredom, loneliness, and depression.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

I'm not with anybody, I don't have time for dating. Not to get too personal, but it's weirdly harder to meet new people now. But for the first time in my life since I was a little kid, I'm not so concerned about it.

I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

When I say 'friends,' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any.

They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another.

Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.