Condolences Quote by Mary Douglas

Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It…

— Mary Douglas

Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination…

— Henry David Thoreau

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

— George Edward Woodberry

My view is that friendship permeates human life and is involved in almost everything we think, feel, and do. For that very reason, there…

— Alexander Nehamas

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

— John Irving

Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances…

— Henry David Thoreau

True friendship is devotion serving each other identifying one self with others sufferings just forgetting ones own wishes, own priorities and own body etc.…

— Anonymous

[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it…

— Wallace Stegner

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

— Anonymous

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

— CS Lewis