Jack McDevitt Quotes

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

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

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

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 love people. I hate to be by myself.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

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

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

I live by myself, so I derive a lot of joy from being with my friends and their families.

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

When people are with me, who can say I am alone.

Few people give themselves time to be friends.

You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.

How many people ask you to come share their life?

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

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

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

But a man needs company.

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore

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