The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. - Quintus Tullius Cicero Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. - Ambrose Bierce The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. - Elizabeth Bowen How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of the morning, looking up into the absence of light, remembering absent friends. Sometimes in those little hours I think about the horizon. You have to establish the horizon. You have to mark the white. A simple enough act, you might say, but any act that re-makes the world is heroic. Or so I've come to believe. - Stephen King To absen...

Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults. - Charles M Schulz I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs. - Jackson Browne I felt about him as I might feel about a friendly, dimwitted dog that had decided to move in with us. He could not be cast out into the street, but he was shedding all over the furniture. - Elizabeth Peters

I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on the rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind - what else is there? What else do we need? - Edward Abbey Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends. - Mark Twain The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will s...

Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults. - Charles M Schulz A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark. - Frances O Roark Dowell A friend is someone who knows where all your bodies are buried. Because they're the ones who helped you put them there. And sometimes, if you're really lucky, they help you dig them back up. - Jenny Lawson Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"--because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk - E Lockhart A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. - Jim Morrison A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words - Shania Twain

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. - Mark Twain Friends? In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you. Is that what you are, Harker? - Joe Abercrombie Life is still as never was, One Seems dead yet still is alive. Man frets for things, things he can buy, All's for sale but not life. Life is there when a friend is there, A friend like you worth more than life. - Amit Abraham Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. - Joseph Addison A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence. - Aristotle a friend is a second self - Quintus Tullius Cicero A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift.....The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his commandments are called his servants. After they have been tested and tried and are found fai...

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. - Bernard Meltzer A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again. - Lauren Conrad A true friend is someone who is always there for you, with no agenda other than the friendship itself. We rely on our friends to lift us up in bad times, to keep us grounded in good times, but most importantly, to be there for us when we need nothing at all. - Tonya Hurley Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. - Jim Morrison A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. - Len Wein