Haruki Murakami Quotes

I don't really have a best friend.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

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

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

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 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.

I don't have a lot of friends.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

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

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

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

A man by himself is in bad company.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

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.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Better be alone than in bad company.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

I wouldn't like to grow old alone.

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