8,502 Quotes About Friendship

Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.

Your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase.

A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.

Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.

Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.

When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.

I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.