Felicity Kendal Quotes

How much of our lives is consumed with meeting people, attracting people, keeping people and missing people? Usually, when everything is resolved romantically in one of my books, the characters stop talking in my head, and I stop telling the story.

It's who you get to share life with, not the actual experiences, that makes living so worthwhile.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

While it's nice to appreciate the fashion world... what makes you happy are real relationships and the moments you share with loved ones.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is directly related to how many people are in our lives and how deeply we are bonded with those people.

I want to be with people I care about and hang out with my dogs.

You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.

I don't want people to be lonely. I would like them to find partners.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?

Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back.

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

People first. Dogs second. Things last.

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that!