#friendship

The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same reasons that they are bad matrimonial risks. They expend the best parts of themselves in their work. Moreover, literary ambition has a way of turning into literary competition; if fame is the spur, envy may be a concomitant. ↗

— Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

#friendship #hemingway #writers #friendship

He needed me to make it okay. ↗

— Damon Suede

#love #friendship

That day was the beginning of my friendship with Sebastian, and thus it came about, that morning in June, that I was lying beside him in the shade of the high elms watching the smoke from his lips drift up into the branches. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#june #lips #shade #smoke #friendship

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal. ↗

— William Penn

#friendship #death

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#escape #family #friendships #insanity #love

Make friendships before you get rich and famous. ↗

— Nico Schückle

#life #truth #friendship

I feel like our whole friendship was a lie. She's probably the only person I've ever really opened up to, and the whole time she was hiding stuff from me. I just don't feel like I can trust somebody like that. ↗

— Brendan Halpin

#trust #friendship

Friendship is our home, we'll go home someday. ↗

— Alvi Syahrin

#novel-dilema #friendship

Friede – wie Freundschaft – setzt Achtung voraus. ↗

— Johannes Müller

#peace #friendship

and the creation, in the world and above the world, that once was at variance with itself, is knit together in friendship: and we ... are made to join in the angels' song, offering the worship of their praise. ↗

— Gregory of Nyssa

#christ #friendship #friendship