Elie Wiesel Quotes

Life is nothing without friendship.

There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.

There is no life without friendship

Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

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.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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.

It's who you get to share life with, not the actual experiences, that makes living so worthwhile.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.

One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom add what will equal the generous first growths of our youth, yet friendship becomes insensibly old in much less time than is commonly imagined, and not many years are required to make it mellow and pleasant.