Quotes About Friendship

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

I think when you're younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age.

The loss of friends is a tax on age!

But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.

Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.

When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.

Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.

I never fit in with my peer group. I never hung out with kids my age - I always wanted to hang out with my mom and her girlfriends.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.

Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then [at age of 13].

Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

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

Jem touched the parabatai rune on his shoulder, through the thin material of his nightshirt. "I am not alone," he said. "Wherever we are, we are as one.

Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.