Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

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

I never want to feel too far away from people. I think that's when you get in trouble.

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

That's when you know you know somebody. When you know every piece of clothing they have in their wardrobe. That's friendship.

The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

Everybody needs somebody.

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

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

I want to play real people. Real women. I want to be where the fun is - closer to humanity.

If one is aware and alive, then it is one's relationships that make you live. It makes life worth living.

What I've always valued is people.

A true friend is a sort of second self.

Everybody's somebody's everything

A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?