Quotes About Close Friendships

#1. Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#2. People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don't make close friends is because they're too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#3. I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains.

Russell Brand

#4. People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their jobs. But the absence of any close friendships can lead to boredom, loneliness, and depression.

Tom Rath

#5. Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.

Louis Kronenberger

#6. Over the years, I have created close friendships with many successful men, many of whom I have made a lot of money for through deals that I brought to them or business counsel that I have provided.

Carol Roth

#7. I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.

Brian McBride

#8. The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#9. I welcome every chance I get to interact with fans. I've made some very close friendships amongst fans, and I look forward to seeing them.

Jim Beaver

#10. Close friendships with girls come early in life. After thirty it becomes harder to make new friends - there are fewer hopes, dreams or anticipations to share.

Jacqueline Susann

#11. Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.

Clifford Stoll

#12. All close friendships are marked with competition. Our earliest tests are against our siblings and playmates, and some of that rivalry endures amongst friends into adulthood. Like dogs play fighting, you learn not to bite hard.

Christopher Bollen

#13. Tony, Stacy and Jay really looked at life completely different and that played into everything that they did, whether it was skating or with their friendships. And for the three of us, we had such a close relationship off screen, that it was so easy to have that on screen.

John Robinson

#14. Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.

Meg Wolitzer

#15. We became friends, I suppose, because we lived close to each other and it suited us and because when you are young friendships go unquestioned.

Aminatta Forna

#16. One of the sad features of most close relationships is the decay of intimacy as a function of time, turmoil, and all the little misunderstandings that inevitably occur between people, leading them, year in and year out, toward the same tired conclusions: conversation falters; friendships fail.

Donald Antrim

#17. Throughout our lives, no one could figure out how we were so close, but when friendships begin with cupcakes - chocolate, at that - no truer bond develops.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#18. I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.

Jennifer Beals

#19. In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time.

Greta Gerwig

#20. I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting friendships can give.

Marlin K. Jensen

#21. It's just that, you know how it is in some relationships, how one of them is a little more in love. Well, it's like that with friendships. Sometimes one of them thinks they're really close, closer than they are. And the other doesn't feel that way.

Andrew Sean Greer

#22. Tell few about your dreams and show the rest in the way you make a life with it.

Nikki Rowe

#23. Most of my close friends, growing up, were women - and even after I got married, I still maintained a lot of those friendships. But as they get married, and as I get older, I'm making a lot of the transition to the husbands.

Andrew Gurland

#24. They had never been able to sustain fifteen minutes' conversation with one another without advancing irreconcilable points of view, invigorating in friendships, but in close blood relations producing only uneasy cordiality.

Harper Lee

#25. They say distance makes old friendships fade away. They say with time and distance lovers forget one another. I find it quite the opposite. Distance, time, they all enhance the aroma of every moment two close souls once spent together, they magnify every little shared pleasure.

Carol Vorvain

#26. If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.--Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

P.A. Speers

#27. I think I'm close to lot of people in Bollywood, but I believe in evil eye, and I feel when I talk about friendships and relationships in public something somewhere goes wrong with it.

Arjun Rampal

#28. I wondered if people ever blamed the end of friendships on geographical differences, the divides that come from being born in different areas, culture clash.

Jennifer Close

#29. There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.

Donald Johanson

#30. There is no medicine that can ignite the bond of love. Friendship is compulsory, love comes around when friendship ripes, and sex is a matter of choice.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#31. I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.

Shauna Niequist