Friendship
Quotes - A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere
“Are
you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't
worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun
will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.”
―
Charles M. Schulz
“I
don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my
shadow does that much better.”
―
Plutarch
“A
friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I
am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop
even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought,
which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and
wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson , Essays, First Series
“Watson.
Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
―
Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Creeping Man
“You
think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry.
"No,
I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it
as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“No
man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
―
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“If
you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up
being left out.”
―
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Friends
are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
-Maggie”
―
Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
“Sam
and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not
anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever
ask from a friend.”
―
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Two
a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two
a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's
cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's like,
the highest level of friendship.”
―
Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
“A
true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows
that you are slightly cracked.”
―
Bernard Meltzer
“But
it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo.
Sam
looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You
can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And
you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself.
But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a
word. We are your friends, Frodo.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“We
live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and
therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
―
C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
“We
are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the
deep.”
―
William James
“Rejection
is an opportunity for your selection.”
―
Bernard Branson
“When
the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of
different sexes, the friendship which arises between them will very easily pass
– may pass in the first half hour – into erotic love. Indeed, unless they are
physically repulsive to each other or unless one or both already loves
elsewhere, it is almost certain to do so sooner or later. And conversely,
erotic love may lead to Friendship between the lovers. But this, so far from
obliterating the distinction between the two loves, puts it in a clearer light.
If one who was first, in the deep and full sense, your Friend, is then
gradually or suddenly revealed as also your lover you will certainly not want
to share the Beloved’s erotic love with any third. But you will have no jealousy
at all about sharing the Friendship. Nothing so enriches an erotic love as the
discovery that the Beloved can deeply, truly and spontaneously enter into
Friendship with the Friends you already had; to feel that not only are we two
united by erotic love but we three or four or five are all travelers on the
same quest, have all a common vision.”
―
C.S. Lewis, Four Loves
“The
antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”
―
Aristotle
“A
good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future,
the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
―
Lois Wyse
“When
you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For
that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain
to the climber is clearer from the plain.”
―
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
“Friendship
is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
―
Khalil Gibran, Kahlil Gibran, The Collected Works
