Emil Ferris Quotes

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

When people are with me, who can say I am alone.

The next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

Since I'm homeschooled, I don't get much kid interaction, so I started at this gym and I got to meet other kids. I actually met one of my best friends there; we hang out all the time.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

I never spent much time with people my own age.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.

I would like to have a more social life than I have.

I didn't play with other children.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

I wouldn't like to grow old alone.

I feel Noah has been alone for the majority of his life and inherently searching for a family, even though he may not express that outwardly. But his encounter with Rosalee gave him hope in finding someone who thinks like him.

I don't really have a best friend.

While loneliness has the potential to kill, connection has even more potential to heal.

When I was growing up, I didn't have tons and tons of friends.