Joseph Brodsky Quotes

A good friend is worth pursuing... but why would a good friend be running away?

I'm good at picking friends.

I can understand companionship.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.

We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.

The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.

It's important to have girlfriends, because guys tend to come and go.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

I think it's important to cultivate as many people as you can to see which ones you jive with. And it makes you happy. If one dies, you have another one. So living is a process that you have to do by yourself, and if you can learn a few little goodies along the way that might make it easier for you, so much the better.

I've got no brothers or sisters, so it's really important for me to have friends who I've known for years that I really know I can trust and rely on.

It's not just the number of friends you have, and it's not whether or not you're in a committed relationship. It's the quality of your close relationships that matters.

I had a lot of friends, but none of them I felt super close with. Now that I'm older, I can look back on my teenage self and kind of see the things I did wrong and the things I did right, what affect they had on me, and what affect they had on other people. I can look at it in a much more conducive way to storytelling.

I try not to do it in a way that is hurtful, but I always tell him the truth, and he tells me the same thing. I trust him the most, and I know he trusts me the most.

Justine reached for a fresh tissue and clamped it to Lucy’s nose as if she was a child. “Friends are the support bras of life. We don’t let each other down. Right?

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

Crazy how you gotta wait until it's dark out to see who really with you.

Long conversations with pals when neither you nor they have had a drink can be a test of palship.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

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.