Gretchen Rubin Quotes

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.

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.

Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

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

To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.

Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.

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.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.

I really only have a few friends.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

How we need another soul to cling to.

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Kids who enter 'adulthood' without any strong attachments to people who know and care about them have a rough road ahead, to say the least.

I don't spend a lot of time with anybody.

I would like to have a more social life than I have.

Networking is rubbish; have friends instead.

Going through life solo isn't very exciting if you can't share it with somebody, you know?

I'd like to get back to my family and friends - believe it or not, I do have some real friends.

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

Of course I'd like someone in my life. And of course, when I go home in the evening, I wish there was someone waiting for me. But very honestly, I don't have time to be lonely. My work fills up most of my day, and when I get home, I just want to sleep.

I have this rule now that I keep people around me who I enjoy being with when I'm sober.