“Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
-C.S. Lewis
“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
-Albert Camus
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
-Elbert Hubbard
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
-Bob Marley
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”
-Alfred Tennyson
“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
“Pooh!” he whispered.
“Yes, Piglet?”
“Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. “I just wanted to be sure of you.”
-A.A. Milne
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
-Henri J.M. Nouwen
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
-Helen Keller
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
-C.S. Lewis
“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
-A.A. Milne
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
-Jalaluddin Rumi
“Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
-E.B. White
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
-Aristotle
“He must have known I’d want to leave you.”
“No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
-J.K. Rowling
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?”
-A.A. Milne
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
-Alice Walker
“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is… suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”
-Gillian Anderson
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
-Anaïs Nin
“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
-Haruki Murakami
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
-Abraham Lincoln
“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
-Irving Stone
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”
-Ally Condie
“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
-Bette Midler
“There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
-J.K. Rowling
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
-Charles Lamb
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
-Elie Wiesel
“It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”
-Emilie Autumn
“I am looking for friends. What does that mean — tame?”
“It is an act too often neglected,” said the fox. “It means to establish ties.”
“To establish ties?”
“Just that,” said the fox. “To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world….”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
“I am always saying “Glad to’ve met you” to somebody I’m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
-J.D. Salinger
“People have forgotten this truth,” the fox said. “But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
-Dean Koontz
“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”
-C.S. Lewis
