John O'Donohue Quotes

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

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work then it just becomes lonely and it's not fun anymore.

I have very few friends.

I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

I have very few friends. I'm an associate of everybody and friend of none.

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

I don't have many friends.

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.

The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

I don't have any blonde friends.

I don't have a lot of friends.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I always felt an outsider.

People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.

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

I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.

I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.