Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it's a source of great pain and that lasts.

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

Sangram is my best friend. He loves me more than himself and his absence in my life has brought a vacuum in my life.

I love my friends. They're my family.

No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

I've learnt that there's a soul mate somewhere in this world. Till you don't find that person, the search goes on.

Kids are like glue: they can bond together, unlikely companions, even when there is little else left to maintain the connection.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

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

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

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

Jennifer Garner and I are very close.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

My friends are my estate.

Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.

I have people who love me and people that I love and a man that I love. So in that sense, I feel that I'm pretty well rounded.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.