Quotes About Reflection

Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.

Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.

It's not who you are, who you are friends, and how popular they are, it's just about how much you get out of each friendship and how much you learn from each one that really counts.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

I recommend that you try a little mental floss.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

We can only accept friendship from others to the degree that we give it to ourselves.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

We die as often as we lose a friend.