Quotes About Friendship

Virtue is the only friend which follows us even beyond the grave. Everything else ends with death.

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow.

To my surprise, I had not just doodled, I had prayed (I drew new shapes and names of each friend and focused on the person whose name stared at me from the paper). I had though OF each person as I drew but not ABOUT each person. I could just sit with them in a variation on stillness. I could hold them in prayer.

Long ago I used to mutter (as you probably do), "Very interesting," and cast a desperate glance around for the punch-bowl. This banal comment fools no one, least of all the artist, and you quickly find you have lost a friend and alienated a roomful of people, all of whom are pretending they like the pictures with a grim kind of appreciation.

And that is the beautiful thing about friendship: we can take liberties, we can show our frailer side, we can afford the vast luxury of giving way to our boredom when we are bored, our anger when we are angry, our peckishness when we feel downhearted.

Many marriages falter, it seems to me, not because the couples are out of love, but because they have never been friends as much as lovers. They may love each other, in a vaporously romantic way, but they do not really like each other as individual personalities.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.

May we always meet on happy occasions.

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God is Love, my friends- nothing more, nothing less.

Awed, I asked, 'How could you possibly have known enough about Jarel to trust him?' 'I didn't. I trusted you.

As a child, I survived by forgetting. Later, the amnesia became a problem as large as the one it was meant to conceal. However, I did not remember my past until the homemade bomb was defused, until the evil was contained, until I was stable enough and happy enough that sorrow or anger or regret or pain was overwhelmed by joy at my release. To reach this state, I needed the help of friends and healers. This I had in abundance. (252)

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

After all, every man will climb if he can, and not many of them continue so kind to old acquaintances.

Before a cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream.

someone you considered a friend will kick you to the curb because you stop hanging out so much with the fellas to be with your girlfriend. Prioritize your relationships and you will discover who your real friends are.

A true friend stands with you no matter how outlandish the circumstances may seem at any give moment.

Social climbers are a bit like rats. You know you should avoid them, but, somehow one or two manage to sneak into your life anyhow.

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had