William Boyd Quotes

You do need people. You can't live without them. We're all interconnected in some way.

Relationships with parents, grandparents, friends, and siblings were important to me when I was young and have remained so throughout my life. Our relationships with other people both shape and reflect who we are. These relationships are infinitely fascinating to explore!

As your enemies and your friends, so are you

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

All intimacies are based on differences.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

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

Everything happens through relationships.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

But you base everything on people you know.

We're now married to the world. But we keep acting like we're on a big date.

There's the bond of a connection and the bond of bondage... When you are connected to somebody, everything each one does affects the other, and it's a kind of bondage. You're not as free as you would be if that person wasn't in your life.

I cherish the relationships and friendships I have with the people in my life and take every opportunity I have to make time for them.

Few people give themselves time to be friends.

I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those things.

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our coworkers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.

I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways.

Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.