Marguerite Duras Quotes

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

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 think one needs a companion at some point in life.

No one was created to be alone.

Everyone wants to be with someone.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

I don't know where I'd be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You're my best friend.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

If you are going to be with someone all the time, they need to be your best friend.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

Everybody needs somebody.

How we need another soul to cling to.

I think most people would struggle to define their whole relationship with just one label - like: my girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, confidantes, whatever - but in those moments, there's true joy in each other.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

I've seen a lot of pairs of guys that have been hanging out together way too long-until they're laughing all the time.

I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

I want Charo to live with me in my house. I want to have her in my pocket whenever I need cheering up.

The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that?