“Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.”
Quotes about friend
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“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.”
“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Love Letter to America https://archive.org/details/BezmenovLoveLetterToAmerica/page/n1/ (1984)
“Never let a friend kill you twice”
Source: https://twitter.com/nelsonitodo/status/1406660193979670532?s=19
Source: on Twitter https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1316801215083225096, 16 October 2020
“The main wish of the introvert is to avoid friends as well as enemies.”
Source: Marcelo H. del Pilar's last words to Mariano Ponce (4 July 1896)
“I don't have friends, I have family.”
“I don't got friends, I got Flex Seal.”
Poetic Justice.
Source: Song lyrics, good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012)
Original: (it) I veri amici sanno ascoltare con il cuore, valutare con la ragione e relazionarsi attraverso le proprie esperienze. Fanno tesoro di tutto ciò che illumina i loro occhi e riscalda la loro anima.
Source: prevale.net
Source: As quoted, Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act III, movie XV, (1623)
1984
“What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.”
Source: Opium: The Diary of His Cure
“Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.”
Source: The Ribbajack: and Other Haunting Tales
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Source: Kill the Dead
Source: Breadcrumbs
“The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Friends… they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”
Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“Just because you're the enemy of my enemy don't mean you're my friend, Han thought.”
Source: The Exiled Queen
“I suppose […] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.”
Source: Heir to the Shadows
Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
“If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.”
Source: Forever Odd (2005), Chapter 11; Odd Thomas's recounting of a conversation with Little Ozzie
Context: "Sometimes," I said, "it seems to me that a friend might not take such pleasure in making fun of me as you do."
"Dear Odd! If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not, in fact, his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying those things that would elicit laughter from strangers? The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness."
“There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another…”
Source: The Diviners
“In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.”
Source: The Book Of Tea
Variant: 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.
Source: Beloved
“You've got to take it on faith that the enemy of your enemy is your friend.”
Source: Last Sacrifice
Source: Taggerung
“-""Expansion to your ego, friend"".
-""At your expense"".”
Variant: Expansion to your ego, friend.
-At your expense.
The monster to Robert Walton
Source: Frankenstein (1818)
Context: I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine. When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
Context: I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy? I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory. Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment. Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine. When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
“why do our enemies shape us more than our friends?”
Source: The Dark Side of Love
“Oh, hey, maybe I should have mentioned that my friends are retarded douchebags.”
Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
“Stop it.
Do not feel safe with him. The Stockholm Syndrome is not your friend.”
Source: Lover Unbound