Simone Weil Quotes

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

In her previous novels, Maggie O'Farrell has often measured the distance between intimates and the unexpected intimacy of distance - geographic, temporal, cultural. In 'The Hand That First Held Mine' and 'The Distance Between Us,' characters separated by many miles or many years turn out to be joined in ways they never anticipated.

Do we need distance to get close?

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

I think most people would struggle to define their whole relationship with just one label - like: my girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, confidantes, whatever - but in those moments, there's true joy in each other.

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

As friends go it is less important to live.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

Keith Powell and Judah Friedlander are like brothers to me.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

You can't explain why people are friends and why those friendships last, but there certainly is magic in it. It's just something that you treasure.

Alastair Cook is one of my best pals.

I treasure all my friendships.

I'm good friends with Matt Morrison.

Kaka is a personal friend to me.

Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't." "I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.

A girl's legs are her best friends...but even the best of friends must part.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.

Most of the friends you trust are those you've known for 10 years.