Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.

Yves Saint Laurent didn't have friends. He loved nobody. He was intimate with nobody.

Sometimes sex is just a way to escape having to talk to that person.

If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

My family is very close. I can't say that about many people I meet in Hollywood.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

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

I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?' I've never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I'll bother now.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.

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

They tell you in Washington that if you want a friend, get a dog. That is not true. Get a family. This is a hard place to be.

I've got no brothers or sisters, so it's really important for me to have friends who I've known for years that I really know I can trust and rely on.

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

I don't like people; I don't let too many people into my life.

No one was created to be alone.

Most films have a relationship or lack of it. They are about human beings.

I don't want people to be lonely. I would like them to find partners.

This whole thing about a woman staying alone and being happy is just a myth. Everyone needs someone in their lives.