Quote by George Eliot

“to shrink the circle of intimate community to the smallest possible circumference. This is the spoiling of faithful friendship.”

— Ralph C. Wood

“There are friendships that are greater than family bonds, but they are very rare”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at…

— Jane Austen

“I have made all sorts of acquaintances, but have as yet found no society. I know not what attraction I possess for the people,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Our friendship, for example, and how quickly we passed through each other, from fascinated strangers to loyal chums to relics of each other's world.…

— Sam Lipsyte

“There’s something profoundly intense and intoxicating about friendship found en route. It’s the bond that arises from being thrust into uncomfortable circumstances, and the…

— Lavinia Spalding

“Sometimes when we least expect it, a small cross proves a lovely crown, a seemingly unimportant event becomes a lifelong experience, or a stranger…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Imagine a world without touch… Relationships grow colder, trust erodes, and loneliness becomes the norm.”

— Ken Breniman

“It was an archaic expression of friendship by an undisciplined man in an age when most men seemed in mortal fear of being mistaken…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Of course every person you meet in life has an impact on who you become, no matter how small the interaction, everything matters.”

— Katerina Diamond

“Such narrowly missed human connection as this can in fact be fatal, no matter who's at fault, and often results in unrecoverable free fall…

— Richard Ford

“...it was an intimate bond between the men of that generation ... for nothing brings men close together than a common misfortune happily overcome.”

— Ivo Andrić