Albert Camus Quotes

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

Friendships are an unforseeable burden.

What a thing friendship is - World without end.

Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone

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

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

Friendship is full of dregs.

Friendship's the wine of life.

In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.

The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

If you are going to be with someone all the time, they need to be your best friend.

A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.

Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.

I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.