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Quotes About Understanding

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.
~ Alex Flinn, Beastly
If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?
~ David Nicholls, One Day
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.
~ Leonard Cohen
Odd as this might sound, I suppose I'm glad you're here, Jacob. [Edward Cullen]
~ Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
Friends don't build cages for each other.
~ Karen Marie Moning, Iced
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
~ Publilius Syrus
A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.
~ Sophie Irene Loeb
My best friend was Aboriginal.
~ Isabel Lucas
The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.
~ Elise Broach
The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates.
~ Lillian B. Rubin
Friendship takes time.
~ Agnes Repplier
You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?
~ Nathanael Emmons
Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.
~ Mark Kingwell
Friendship is identification and difference
~ Hermann Hesse
Without confidence, there is no friendship.
~ Epicurus
A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
~ Lucy Larcom
I'll be your crying shoulder.
~ Edwin McCain
Friendship reaches well above all currency.
~ Robert M. Hensel
I know you guys have some sort of weird thing going on, with that game you play and everything—" "It's called a friendship.
~ Sarah Dessen
You're looking like a woman now, you're mind hasn't gotten the message somehow.
~ Unknown
Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.
~ Louis Kronenberger
It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend's shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.
~ John Knowles