When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing... view

By: Elie Wiesel

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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions... view

By: Samuel Johnson

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Man's loneliness is but his fear of life... view

By: Eugene O'Neill

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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything... view

By: Lawrence Durrell

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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship... view

By: Edgar Watson Howe

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The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved... view

By: Mother Teresa

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At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self... view

By: Brendan Francis

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I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States... view

By: Richard Lugar

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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen... view

By: Carson McCullers

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit... view

By: Aristotle

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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account... view

By: Alice Walker

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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses... view

By: Ann Landers

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