Patricia Reilly Giff Quotes

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.

Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

I have wonderful friends. I'm not just a lonely old lady.

I think one needs a companion at some point in life.

This whole thing about a woman staying alone and being happy is just a myth. Everyone needs someone in their lives.

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

Everyone's been lonely at some point and in need of a friend.

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?

In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

There is no wilderness like a life without 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.

It's a lot easier to find a friend on television than love.

Traveling as much as I do, I get lonely sometimes. I have friends now in cities all over the world, so I get to be social, but it's hard to have the deep meaningful relationships, especially an intimate one. With my guy friends, I can show up once a month and go to dinner with them and they're happy.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

I could hold on to everything for the rest of my life. I don't make friends easy, and I don't lose friends easy.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.