Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.