Quotes About Connection

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

A friend is known when needed.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

The sense that someone else cares always helps, because it is the sense of love

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand... but touches your heart.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

No words are necessary between two loving hearts

When you go somewhere your heart goes with you, But when you leave your friends their heart goes with yours.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive li

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us

If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.