Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

You found out who your real friends were. Once you don’t have that perceived power and influence, you’re not necessarily any use any more. The phone doesn’t ring as much.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

Have your friends collect your records and then change your number.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.

The wretched have no friends.

Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

I think it's really hard to work in a city where you live too, because I get so absorbed with the movie that I become a bad friend and a bad participant in my own life.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.

It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls." "There are always walls." I say.

I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.

I always felt like an outcast at school. I had good friends, but none that I truly related to.

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore.

We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.

I drink every night. But I don't hang out and party. Not that I'm selling out Madison Square Garden, but in the old days after a show you could hang out with a few people. But now you're hanging around with 20 people, all of whom don't know each other, and they're all, "Leave my outgoing greeting on my voice mail, man, come on!"

I think if I have established anything in my book, it's that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable with my forced fun.

We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this state is not simply a natural system. Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.