Desmond Morris Quotes

I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.

I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

This may be a bit of a broad statement, but I don't think there's anyone that I've met that I haven't created a bit of a deep relationship with. It's a really lovely thing to create a relation with people that might not anticipate that closeness. And that's kind of the light of my life, getting to be close to people.

You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

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

I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

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.

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were no substitute for love itself. They couldn't kiss her like Meggie, they couldn't hug her like Resa, they couldn't laugh like Mortimer. Poor books, poor Elinor.

I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.

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.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

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.

I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

Rather than diminishing the idea of 'truly needing' a relationship - and trying to deny it, shame it, or talk ourselves out of it - why not just celebrate it? It's exactly what the world needs.

I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.