Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
One does not make friends. One recognizes them.
- Elie Wiesel, “The Gates Of The Forest” (1966)
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is ANYTHING you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
- Edgar Watson Howe
There is a murderous feeling stronger than any friendship and it’s called envy.
- Janos Bokay
दोस्त अगर फेल हो जाए, तो दुख होता है, पर अगर दोस्त फर्स्ट आ जाए, तो ज्यादा दुख होता है.
Anyone can sympathise with the suffering of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong (From the book How to Save Your Own Life)
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
दोस्त अगर फेल हो जाए, तो दुख होता है, पर अगर दोस्त फर्स्ट आ जाए, तो ज्यादा दुख होता है.
- Three Idiots से
Anyone can sympathise with the suffering of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
[My diary entry dated 8th August, 1988]
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
- Octavia Butler / Gloria Naylor
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
- Cicero
- Garth Henrichs
“Friendship,” a slim, sometimes piercing novel, is a sharply observed chronicle of the inequality inherent in even the most valued friendships.
- From a review
In The Oxford Book of Friendship, D.J. Enright, one of England's best known poets, and David Rawlinson bring together some of the world's best thoughts on friendship, found in excerpts from Shakespeare and the Bible, novels and poems, autobiographies, letters, and diaries, even personal ads from The New York Review of Books. The selections across a wide spectrum offer a literary buffet of historic and literary friendships of all kinds--from David and Jonathan in the Bible to Damon and Pythias, from Goethe and Schiller to Huck Finn and Jim--and under all circumstances, from friendships forged in concentration camps to the bonds we form with our pets. Concluding with a delightful potpourri of short sayings, like: "It is easier to visit friends than to live with them", the editors provide an amusing, enriching, and reflective anthology on a central theme in everyone's life.
In my view, friendship is born out of shared:
- Values and views
- Tastes and interests (likes and dislikes)
- Experiences (memories)
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