When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Once everyone is connected to everyone and everything else, nothing matters anymore. If everyone in the world is your Facebook friend, then why have any Facebook friends at all? We're back where we started. The ultimate complexity is just another entropy.
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.
Friendships are discovered rather than made.