Gail Honeyman Quotes

It seems like no one has friends in New York, they just have collaborators or co-workers.

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

We spend 364 days a year surrounded by people who kind of are our family, but we never really get to meet them or break through with them.

We work more than we do anything else in our lives, but the average person only interacts with four to five colleagues. Outside of that, they don't build that many relationships.

I hang out with people I have worked with - most of my friends I've met because I've worked with them, to be honest.

I don't have many friends in the industry.

New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way.

It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest... The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance...

Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends

Living in LA is like not having a date on Saturday night.

I've got more friends than I've ever had in my life at the age of 39 - although given that I didn't have any friends until the age of 27, it doesn't say much - because I found the internet.

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

Sold my house in LA, packed myself up and moved to New York, not knowing anybody. Friends are very hard to make after a certain age.

I've never been the type of guy that had a lot of friends or was part of the cool group.

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.

So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build walls, literal and figurative, around ourselves. We move from a teeming college dorm to an apartment to a house, and if we're really wealthy, to an estate. We think we're moving up, but really we're walling off ourselves.

I love New York. You're never alone, but you're always on your own.

The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.

I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.

I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.