Friendless Quotes

• Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

  William Shakespeare

  Hopeless, Alas

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.604

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• No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Best Friend, Funny Friendship, Reading

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• No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

  Aristotle

  Lonely, Loneliness, Philosophical

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Self Esteem, Being Single, Self Reliance

  Charlotte Bronte (2015). “Jane Eyre, an Autobiography: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.398, 谷月社

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• There is no desert like being friendless.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Desert

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• The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.

  Tupac Shakur

  Fake People, Rapper, Being Real

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• Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Common Sense, Utterance

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.90, University of Georgia Press

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• To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Leadership, Society, Reign

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 2, scene 4, l. 47

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• If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Ifs

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• If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?

  George R. R. Martin

  Choices, Abandoned, Dies

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1384, Bantam

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• Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Names, Innocent

  On the death of Mr Levett, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 137 (20 January 1782)

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• There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Men, Sincere

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• If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Average, Today, Chance

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• Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.

  Douglas Malloch

  Friendship, Dog, Hurt

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• Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

  Phil Ochs

  Doe, Wonder, Liberalism

  "Have you Heard? The War is Over!". The Village Voice, November 23, 1967.

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• Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Art, Home, Sleep

  Ebenezer Elliott (1835). “Kerhonah ; The Vernal Walk ; Win Hill: And Other Poems”, p.77

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• The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Lonely, Progress, Fields

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• If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Wicked, Guilt

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.61, Penguin

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• Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.

  Robin Sloan

  Giving, Advice, Millionaire

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.75, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.

  Glenn Beck

  Suicidal, Mean, Kitchen

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• in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned.

  Dorothea Dix

  Compassion, Want, Cold

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• I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor.... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.

  Winston Churchill

  Sorry, War, Heart

  "Mr. Churchill's Reply". The Times, November 7, 1938.

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• The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.

  Harry S. Truman

  Powerful, Thinking, Play

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry.
  We thank thee for health and remember the sick.
  We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless.
  We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved.
  May these remembrances stir us to service,
  That thy gifts to us may be used for others.
  Amen.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Father, Sick, Remembrance

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• Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Happiness, Light, Heaven

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