Deep Friendship Quotes:

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Art, Philosophy, Men, New Friendship, Songs And Friendship

If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.

- Chin-Ning Chu

source: Chin-Ning Chu (2010). “Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life”, p.173, Hachette UK

topic: Cat, Power, Association, Deep Friendship

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Love, Life, Friendship, If You Love Someone, Marriage Advice

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Mark, Special Friend, Inspirational Friendship, Life Love And Friendship, Friends Forever

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

- Bill Watterson

source: "The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1992.

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, New Friendship, Bff

Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.

- Lincoln Chafee

topic: Appreciation, Two, Democracy, Two Nations, Deep Friendship

No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the only common denominator at this point who's been with me the whole time. And there's this sense of trying to make sense of that ultimate solitude. It's not a negative or even a positive. It's just a fact.

- Feist

topic: Solitude, Trying, Quality, Deep Friendship, Common Denominator

Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in.

- Valerie Solanas

source: Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.

topic: Opportunity, Our Society, Leisure, Leisure Time, Deep Friendship

Love can never really be a great base for marriage because love is fun and play. If you marry someone for love you will be frustrated, because soon the fun is gone, the newness is gone, and boredom sets in. Marriage is for deep friendship, deep intimacy. Love is implied in it, but it is not alone. So marriage is spiritual. It is spiritual. There are many things which you can never develop alone. Even your own growth needs someone to respond, someone so intimate that you can open yourself totally to him or her.

- Rajneesh

topic: Marriage, Spiritual, Fun, Deep Friendship

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

- Jason Epstein

topic: Distance, Editors, Patient, Candor, Deep Friendship

I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness.

- Bill Watterson

topic: Animal, Ideas, Imagination, Deep Friendship, Silliness

Revealing yourself, physically or emotionally, to cast and crew is frequently uncomfortable. But it is essential if you want to to tell the truth. I felt more at ease being bold with some than I did with others. I was incredibly fortunate to have worked with Randy Harrison as Justin Taylor. We share enough taste in music and art to have had a real camaraderie, and luckily that evolved into a deep friendship.

- Gale Harold

source: "Queer as Folk ‘s Gale Harold". Interview with lana Rapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2014.

topic: Art, Real, Essentials, Frankness, Randy

The meditative person can transform his sexuality without any antagonism. without any conflict. He is in deep friendship with all his energies, sexual or others; he is not in any fight. Why fight with your own energies? Love them, rejoice in them, and help them to transcend the lower forms, the animal forms. Let them move from the body towards the turiya, the fourth.

- Rajneesh

topic: Moving, Fighting, Animal, Deep Friendship, Energy Love

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

- Myriam Miedzian

source: Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.16, Lantern Books

topic: Men, Self, United States, Mystique, Deep Friendship