From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
Hilaire BellocRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Friendship provides warmth and connection, and without it, we experience profound loneliness.
This quote by Hilaire Belloc emphasizes the vital role friendship plays in our lives. When we lose our friends, we are left exposed to the harsh realities of isolation, akin to the cold, desolate expanses of space where life cannot thrive. Belloc suggests that friendship serves as a refuge from the loneliness that can otherwise engulf us, making human connection essential for our well-being.
Themes
FriendshipLonelinessConnectionIsolationHuman Relationships
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about mental health, one could use this quote to highlight the importance of social connections.
More from Hilaire Belloc
All quotes βIt has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.
Hilaire BellocRead
Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
Hilaire BellocRead
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
Hilaire BellocRead
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Hilaire BellocRead
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
Hilaire BellocRead
Similar quotes
Is there any pleasure in anger? Yes, if the fire of my anger appeases the ashes of my friends.
VirgilRead
I ended up being friends with all my heroes. Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Johnny Cash - it was incredible.
Kris KristoffersonRead
A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.
Thomas JeffersonRead
The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.
AesopRead
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRead
Looking back, I am grateful for so many friends who helped me in my youth to gain a testimony of the restored Church of Jesus Christ. First, I exercised simple faith in their testimonies, and then I received the divine witness of the Spirit to my mind and to my heart.
Dieter F. UchtdorfRead