Quotes About Connection

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

That was the first time I knew I loved him.

I believe in angels, the kind that heaven sends. I'm surrounded by angels, and I call them my best friends

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

It's so much more friendly with two.

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.

I've always looked at friends as the family we choose.

Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.

It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.

It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.

It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.