Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

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

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

Music is your only friend until the end...

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

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.

A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.

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

I'd like to get back to my family and friends - believe it or not, I do have some real friends.

You want to have a relationship with a man, but, at the end of the day, you have to have some good ole girlfriends. When you are at your lowest, they are going to be there.

When I was growing up and until I got married, I had some times when I felt a bit lonely and a little bit isolated - even after I got married.

When you're in New York, there's women galore. At the end of the day, when I'm by myself or even, at times, when there was a woman next to me, I was feeling alone. It was not the same as it is with my wife. The experience is not the same; the time is not the same.

I don't really have a best friend.

While loneliness has the potential to kill, connection has even more potential to heal.

Everyone's been lonely at some point and in need of a friend.

There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.

My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.

I have no friends, there are only people I love.

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.

You'll never be alone in the bone orchard.

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

Marriage will not solve "aloneness."

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

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.