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Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus1913–1960
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, Steeler Lecture, November 1967.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one!’
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they’re gone. I guess I just miss my friend.
Morgan Freemanborn 1937The Shawshank Redemption
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship⁠—never.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 2, Vol. II; LXXXIII
True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Four Loves (1960), Ch. IV
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle384–322 BCThe Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake1757–1827A Poison Tree (1794), Songs of Experience (1794), A Poison Tree, st. 1In context
- Anger
I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep, for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.
Confucius551–479 BC
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to Bushrod Washington (15 January 1783)
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller1880–1968
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book IX, 1168b.1
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882