Quotes about Friendship

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone.

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.

No, nobody but nobody can make it out her alone.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

I sat down in a chair by the bed. The house got altogether still again, and I thought he was asleep. Just ever so quietly I reached over and laid my hand on his shoulder. He said, 'I love you too, Hannah. He didn't last long after that. Death had become his friend. They say that people, if they want to, can let themselves slip away when the time comes. I think that is what Nathan did. He was not false or greedy. When the time came to go, he went.

Wheeler served them as their defender against the law itself, before which they were ciphers, and so felt themselves—and he could do this only as their friend.

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.

We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.