Quotes About Friendship

I am so ashamed before my friends—to be known to be left by the one who supposedly knew me best, each hour is a room of shame, and I am swimming, swimming holding my head up, smiling, joking, ashamed, ashamed, like being naked with the clothed, or being a child, having to try to behave while hating the terms of your life.

And now I could hear the music think, as I had heard it then, the unspooling of the logic of being mortal—of dying, as my best friend had, when I was nine, and my beloved, when I was sixteen. I heard, again, what loving and being loved might sound like—or I heard what some comfort for the loss of that might sound like. I heard the body and soul of death—of love and death.

The debt of friendship is never collected," he interrupted. "And nothing is ever owed.

I am your friend. I will not fail you at your darkest hour. For this, more than the prestige, he had always wanted to be a Rider—for this utter, bone-deep sense of commitment to a unit and an ideal.

If love makes you sad, you acquire a little depth, a little compassion. If it makes you happy, you learn how to be joyous. Every relationship should color your soul to a certain degree, don't you think? Every friendship, every love affair - each one should build up the chambers of your heart the way a sea creature builds the chamber of his shell.

Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.

yet for those of his generation, the time spent in war was often clearer than the recent past. Perhaps that was because cold, and fear, and the constant presence of death had formed an acid that etched the war memories indelibly in the mind. It had taken a long time for everyday life to override the stories of past battles that had once dominated the conversation whenever his old friends gathered.

Friendship isn't all peaches and cream. Its how much you can take someone's bullshit and insults and not be offended by it.

You hang around that woman long enough," said Bette, "and you'll pick up all kinds of useless shit." Goodbye,

My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.

Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids, I swear to you, I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups.

This is a sad town," he said. "One can be here 10 years and not make enough friends to count. Anything with any character, any history, they will tear it down and they will put in a neon sign. Or something in plastic.

While our friends were rioting, handcuffed and starving, in the yard, we were the ones banging on open cell doors, bellies full, crying for our freedom.

I was dating my first boyfriend in high school for a long time, and we broke up before prom. I hadn't met anyone else that I really wanted to go with, and my friends have always been amazing. So I went with my friends and got a million photos with them!

He just wasn't good at being a cross between a teddy bear and just a friend.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

Friends change toward the ill person, some revealed in their strange and beautiful kindness and some exposed in their utter, ugly selfishness.

That was it. She came out of it. She never had such a down as that or such an up as the three days that preceded it, not ever again in her life. The rest of her life was like a long thin line with little diminuendos and tiny little crescendos, and friends visiting from out of town.

If you're at a loss for friends, you can always grow a garden. Something beautiful and blooming might be solace for your soul." -H.W. Marsworth

Flickorna återvände hem och berättade för Minette att det nog var allra bäst om hon försökte glömma honom. Och när hennes tårar började flöda denna gång gjorde de ingenting för att hindra henne.

Jesus never encouraged His friends to cover over the pain in their lives, but to bring it into the light, where healing is found. Sometimes we don't do that because we fear being rejected by others. Yes, rejection may well happen, but bringing the pain to the light is still the best way to live. It will take much courage, but it will bring freedom.

One of the three points of my childhood code — which is something of a key to this book — was 'Never betray a friend.' That might imply that friendship was important to me: and so it was, to me and to Davy, too. We believed in deep and genuine friendship, and we held our friends and our families very dear and were intensely loyal to them.

He remembered his own code that he had made up when he was about twelve, a code of three points only: 'Never betray a friend. Never betray beauty. Never betray the sword.' By that last he had meant being brave when he was afraid.