Friendship Quotes – It’s easy to make friends if…..
“A
best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked
out.”
―
Shannon l. Alder
“The
language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.”
―
Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“In
your entire life, you can probably count your true friends on one hand. Maybe
even on one finger. Those are the friends you need to cherish, and I wouldn't
trade one of them for a hundred of the other kind. I'd rather be completely
alone than with a bunch of people who aren't real. People who are just passing
time.”
―
Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah
“Time
that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the
grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until
the earth covers us and we are gone.”
―
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
“And
he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
“Its
easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.”
―
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
“For
what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek
him always with hours to live.
For
it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
And
in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For
in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
―
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
“A
fragment for my friend--
If
your soul left this earth I would follow and find you
Silent,
my starship suspended in night”
―
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
“To
those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation,
sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain
unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the
wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them
the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that
one endures.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
“Without
friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”
―
Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
“Everyone
has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.”
―
Marian Anderson
“...Despite
the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand
in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.”
―
John Boyne , The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“Some
people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward
into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them,
everywhere, like leaves on trees.”
―
Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
“There
is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person,
however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self,
the very meaning of one's soul.”
―
Edith Wharton
“He
looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always
known, from the moment they’d met, when he’d understood that the prince was his
brother in soul. “I love you.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
“Those
who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or
elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest
of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same
person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair.
Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever
about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each
other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest. Above all, Eros
(while it lasts) is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being the
necessary number for Friendship, is not even the best. And the reason for this
is important.
...
In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully
bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity;
I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship
is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and
three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend.
They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, 'Here comes one who will
augment our loves.' For in this love 'to divide is not to take away.”
―
C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
“You
think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can
hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull
away.
Every
time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.”
―
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
“I
don't like to give up on people when they need someone not to give up on them.”
―
Carroll Bryant
“He
who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And
he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ”
―
Ali Bin Abi Thalib
“If
I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I
should have the guts to betray my country.”
―
E.M. Forster, What I Believe and Other Essays
