Laurie Colwin Quotes

Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Wherever I am, it's a really good feeling to have that connection to people. I love to go out to talk to people and be with folks. I don't shy away from it.

The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

The relevant question isn't, 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but, 'Is this character alive?'

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

As an adult, you want to connect with people, and you want to feel accepted.

All of us, believers and non-believers, desire some kind of fellowship and connection.

When people are with me, who can say I am alone.

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.

I love being in real life, and in particular, I like being with young people.

I can understand companionship.

I like being around people.

The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

I love people. I hate to be by myself.

Everybody needs somebody.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.