FRIENDSHIP QUOTES V

quotations about friendship

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

ELIE WIESEL

From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences


A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being in all its height, variety and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Essays


Friendship has been called the sweetener of life. It is a compound made up of truth and kindness, prudence and piety.

JOHN THORNTON

Maxims and Directions for Youth


The language of Friendship is not words but meanings.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Friendship


This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

HENRI NOUWEN

Out of Solitude


Be a friend, and thou shalt have friends.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

JARON LANIER

You Are Not a Gadget


Lonesome creates diseases that friendship cures.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's


We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Essays


Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Friendship", Essays


Friendship is not an obsolete sentiment. It is as true now as in Aristotle's time that no one would care to live without friends, though he had all other good things. It is still necessary to our life in its largest sense.

HUGH B. BLACK

Friendship


Friendships are a reflection of who you are and what you need. While we are constantly evolving, there comes a time when we know what the make-and-breaks are in friendship. And once you know what your deal breakers are, naturally you will begin to seek out friendships that fit. Unfortunately, we also know that some friendships will get left behind.

SA'IYDA SHABAZZ

"This Is Why Some Friendships End--And Others Last", Scary Mommy, February 19, 2019


While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.

ROBERT HUGH BENSON

The Friendship of Christ


Friendship ... is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

MARY McCARTHY

How I Grew


Friendship extends about four city blocks.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Friendship can be really tested only in bad times.

DONALD TRUMP

Playboy, Mar. 1990


The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure.

JOSEPH ADDISON

Cato


Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

The Book of Friendship


Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale;
Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart;
Let not the spirit of its growth depart:
It is a power to brave the strongest gale.

WILLIAM WILSEY MARTIN

"Friendship"