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Quotations: For a Friend
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NOTE: Some of the quotes on this page were submitted to me by visitors, and not all have been verified for original source or wording. I'm working hard to confirm everything, but in the meantime please be aware of the possibility for errors.
Everyone needs at least one weird friend. ~E. Jarvis Thribb (17½) [Barry Fantoni
One true friend adds more to our happiness than a thousand enemies add to our unhappiness. ~Marie Dubsky, Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916), translated by Mrs Annis Lee Wister, 1882
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough
Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts. ~Author unknown
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
A true friend is forever a friend. ~George MacDonald, The Marquis of Lossie
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Maria Craik, A Life for a Life, "Chapter XVI: Her Story," 1859
Cling tight to the hearts that will not let you fall. ~Emily Dickinson
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~Arnold Glasow
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ~George Santayana
Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~Elbert Hubbard
Friends are family you choose for yourself. ~Author Unknown
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~Henry David Thoreau
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley, as quoted in The Reader's Digest, 1987
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf
Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~Dorothy Parker
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry
Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job. ~Erwin T. Randall, quoted in The Reader's Digest, 1955
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ~Author Unknown
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit
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 Nouwen
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown
Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it's good just knowing they are there. ~Author Unknown
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. ~C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves, 1960
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~Author Unknown
Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau
If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will not call in vain. God grant that no such time may ever come to you to break the sunshine of your life; but if it should ever come, promise me that you will let me know. ~Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897
A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown
A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. ~Lois Wyse
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. ~Edith Wharton
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ~Katherine Mansfield
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Weller
We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
~Caroline Sheridan Norton
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plautus
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald
A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one. ~Author Unknown
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~Oprah Winfrey
If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. ~Author Unknown
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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