“The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.”
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John Cassian7
Christian monk and theologian 360–435Related quotes
“Death lurks in the farewell of a true friend.”
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786–1859) French poet
La mort est dans l'adieu d'un ami veritable.
Elégies (1830), Au Sommeil; translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 110.
“Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.”
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic
Les hommes peuvent avoir des amis, pas les hommes d'Etat.
Interview, December 9 1967.
Fifth Republic and other post-WW2
“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Source: Tender is the Night
“The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.”
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
