Orson Scott Card Quotes

If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.

Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is deserted by his neighbor.

We should be asking the hard questions that mean you may not have any friends at all—and some of us don’t.

I had no friends. I wasn't there to make friends. I was there to win.

Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV. Except when they don't Because, sometimes they won't. I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.

Oh, no, I think I'd die on my own. I'd be so lonely. Even at home, I'm lonely. I sit in my room and sometimes cry. It is so hard to make friends, and there are some things you can't talk to your parents or family about. I sometimes walk around the neighborhood at night, just hoping to find someone to talk to. But I just end up coming home.

When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.

As the people grow colder, I turn to my computer and spend my evenings with it like a friend.

There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.

Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know that there’s something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.

People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.