Emotional Bonds Quotes

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.

When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

A friend must not be injured, even in jest.

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

The people that matter to me the most are the people that are in my life. That's who I really learn from, and it's always a very personal kind of connection.

You're always working with the relationships. It's pretty demanding, but then again I love that.

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

Freindships multiply joys and divide griefs

Love is never easy. It never is. And I'm not just talking about girl and guy, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband and wife. I'm talking about family, friends - all of that.

In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

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

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight that you end up bound forever in hopeless knots, even to the shadow of a beast you knew and loved long ago.

Without love, the world itself would not survive.

Each friend represents a world in us.

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation.

You just don't come across proper, deep, loyal friendships very easily later on in life.

Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters.

We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.

My family are my friends.