Cat Power Quotes

Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.

I was always making new friends, then losing them.

Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

I have no friends, there are only people I love.

To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.

We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.

I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.

More and more of us live segmented, compartmentalized lives. This isn't natural. For millions of years, our forebears knew everyone around them and everyone knew them.

I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.

I don't have a lot of friends.

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.

What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

The people that matter to me the most are the people that are in my life. That's who I really learn from, and it's always a very personal kind of connection.

I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.

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

I meet so many people, but I don't know anybody.

Being on tour, it's really easy to stop knowing people that you want to know, because you're not sharing experiences; you're not existing in the minor moments of somebody's life.

He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.

You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.

Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.