My Friendship Quotes

One can find traces of every life in each life.

Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.

There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

Twelve minutes. I can give you that.

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

A real relationship is two-way.

You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.

Things don't matter, people do

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.

Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don’t understand you at all.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

Friendship is far more delicate than love.

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.

I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.