Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.

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

I think a lot of guys you see - there seems to be this thing where you can have all the fun in the world, but in the end of the day, there's no one to share it with.

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.

I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know that there’s something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.

I really, really need community.

It takes effort to not be lonely.

When I'm bored, I hate being alone so there's always a friend at my place.

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

New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way.

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936

I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.

It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.

A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

(He) had not realized how much he needed this sweet, friendly sound. How much he needed someone to settle in next to him. He didn't know that he needed to not be so solitary until at last he wasn't. So many needs in one old dog.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

Join me? Patting the spot beside him, he inclined his head. “Pretty please? I’m lonely all by myself over here.

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.

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

I'm a guy who doesn't like to be alone, and the joy that my friends pass me, with them being always by my side, is gigantic.

Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.