Roger Ebert Quotes

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

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

Life is nothing without friendship.

It's always nice to make friends; friends is good.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

I think that sharing experiences with a person is very valuable, because it allows you to have a bond to become closer.

Think back to the most important experiences of your life, the highest highs, the greatest victories, the most daunting obstacles overcome. How many happened to you alone? I bet there are very few. When you understand that being connected to others is one of life's greatest joys, you realize that life's best comes when you initiate and invest in solid relationships.

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

The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

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

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Oh, how good it is to be with someone, sometimes.

Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.