Quotes on Friendship Love

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character.

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Hell, madame, is to love no longer.

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.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.