No Friends Quotes

“A speaker of truth has no friends.”
― African Proverb

“I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

“I am not a good friend. I have never been capable of or willing to commit to the maintenance that the rules of friendship dictate. I cannot rmember bithdays. I do not want to meet for coffee. I will not host the baby shower. I won't text back because it's an eternal game of Ping-Pong, the texting. It never ends. I inevitably disappoint friends, so after enough of that, I decided I would stop trying. I don't want to live in constant debt. This is okay with me.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life

“Nobody would have anything to do with him. He began to drop things and to trip. He had a shy and hopeful manner in each new contact, and he was always disappointed. Because he NEEDED a friend so desperately, he never found one.”
― Joseph Heller

“No relatives, no friends, nobody. Doesn't that seem strange to you? Someone disappears and no one gives a damn?”
― Rutu Modan, Exit Wounds

“Sunday was a sad day-early to bed, school the next morning, I was constantly worried my homework was wrong-but as I watched the fireworks go off in the night sky, over the floodlit castles of Disneyland, was consumed by a more general sense of dread, of imprisonment I within the dreary round of school and home: circumstances which, to me at least, presented sound empirical argument for gloom. My father was mean, and our house ugly, and my mother didn't pay much attention to me; my clothes were cheap and my haircut too short and no one at school seemed to like me that much; and since all this had been true for as long as I could remember, I felt things would doubtless continue in this depressing vein as far as I could foresee. In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“They will turn you over, toss you about, fob you off, take you less seriously, because to get there, you must walk on your own feet.”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“I don’t need no more human friends.”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“Where’s your friend?”
“Jerry hasss nooo, er, ahem,” he cleared his throat. “Jerry has no friends. Just me.”
― Finn Eccleston, The Community: A Funny and Disturbing Conspiracy Mystery Novel

“Death has no friends,' ...”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath