Friendlessness Quotes

“Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions

“Kakvi smo mi to ljudi? Kakav smo mi to narod?... Između Azije i Evrope, na granici vera, carstava, ginuli smo nerazumno, više za druge nego za sebe... i ne stekosmo ni jednog vernog prijatelja. Taj nesrećni i prokleti srpski narod! U Evropi smo danas jedina država koja nema nijednog istinskog prijatelja. Nijednog! Ali nas Bog opet sačuva. Sačuva nas zbog nečeg. I za nešto.”
― Dobrica Ćosić, Vreme smrti, knjiga I

“I have no friends," he said. "And if I do have any left it won't be for long.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, The General in His Labyrinth

“When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the cage of glass between me and the rest of the world - she just laughed. 'You like it,' she said. 'You say you're isolated, boyo, but you really think you're different.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“After all, the only thing that hurts more than tears shed is tears unshed.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Have You Seen Luis Velez?

“After all, when no name springs spontaneously to mind, when you have to rummage in your address book for someone to invite, it is always best to give up trying, if only out of regard for the very concept of friendship.”
― Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

“he worked with great intensity without sparing himself, & he was respected for this, but no one liked him" --crime & punishment”
― dostoievsky