Company Quote by Marcel Proust

When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days,…

— Washington Irving

We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy,…

— Jane Porter

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“From the first winter afternoon in the Harvard ball fields, "Oh no--I need you" had become an admission and a clarion call--the tenet of…

— Gail Caldwell

Simple exchanges can break down walls between us, for when people come together and speak to one another and share a common experience, then…

— Barack Obama

“Relationships are steppingstones for the evolution of our consciousness. Each interaction we have, be it one of joy or contrast, allows us to learn…

— Alaric Hutchinson

“One of the sad features of most close relationships is the decay of intimacy as a function of time, turmoil, and all the little…

— Donald Antrim

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

— Mehmet Oz

The process of becoming friends with someone is physically removing all of that constructed emotional putty that we make ourselves pretty to the world…

— Hank Green

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate,…

— Albert Einstein

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

— ER Hazlip

Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.

— Confucius