Quotes About Friendship

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

Woody [Harrelson] and I actually worked together years ago on North Country. So I felt completely at ease.

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

Matt Bomer and I went to Carnegie Mellon for drama together.

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

I've seen a lot of pairs of guys that have been hanging out together way too long-until they're laughing all the time.

And what had happened to the friendship and the love? . . . They had seemed strong enough for a lifetime of happiness.

A friendship that was agony to continue but that would be a living death to lose.

At the age of fifteen she had begun to train herself to cultivate a friendship where she had longed to entice love. For fourteen years she had held that love only in the deepest, most secret recesses of her being and been his friend with the rest of herself. He had never known.

Then marry me, he said . . . You like me, do you not, Elizabeth? We could have a good friendship, I believe, a good life together. I have enough love for both of us. I should never demand more than you are prepared to give.

For there was no more friendship and never would be again.

She had had to decide between one glorious night of love and a lifetime of friendship. She had chosen the night of love.

She felt that he could become a very close friend. And to a lonely person, friendship can seem a likely substitute for love.

And so he had lost her before he had ever had a chance of having her. And had determinedly, over the next several years, pushed the pain and the longing into the background of his mind, forced friendship to the fore, and won his battle.

His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie,' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea.

I fully intend to cherish any lady I marry, to cultivate a friendship with her, to grow fond of her, to protect and defend her, to give her my time and attention whenever I am able, to remain faithful to the vows I make to her. Is that not what love is?

But good-byes are hard to say . . . when a friendship is a very close one.

Soon Elizabeth had considered him to be her closest friend. She looked forward to meeting him. With him she felt free to pour out her innermost thoughts.

I have gone and done something very silly, Becky, he said, flashing her a grin. I have fallen in love with you. You will think me very foolish, will you not, old friend? I have been fighting it all summer. I don't think you are foolish, Christopher, she said, gazing earnestly back at him. I have loved you for a long time.

That night had been the beginning of an idyllic few months. They had already been friends. Now they were also deeply in love.

But there is a difference between thinking of an absent friend and thinking of someone who used to be a friend and never will be again.

Oh, but I do," Henrietta said earnestly. "' Twill come between us, Anna, and I have so enjoyed having a friend.

And so this was the end. The end of a friendship that had brightened his life through most of his adulthood. Not the end of his love. Now that he was conscious of it again, that would live on, perhaps for the rest of his life.