Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Hon, when someone's a true friend, there's no need to miss 'em." She patted her chest. "'Cause they're always right here.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.

A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

friendship was always contingent.

The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof.

I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.

All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.

Her face was a stranger’s face, which was as it should be. Love each other from the day we are born to the day we die, we are still strangers every minute, and nobody should forget that, even though we have to.

Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.

I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there.

She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek.

I miss you." "That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning." "It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling." It's the distance.

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.