Seeking Solace: 63 Literary Quotes On The Beauty of Nature

“Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious things.”

— Randolph Bourne, monadnock.net

“'He must have known I'd want to leave you.' 'No, he must have known you would always want to come back.'”

— Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, amazon.com

“They were not perfect, but they were my friends.”

— Susanna Kayse, amazon.com

“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, amazon.com

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

— Jane Austen, amazon.com

“You're weird. We'll be friends.”

— Rick Muirragui, Donna Paulsen, Sarah Rafferty, imdb.com

“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other. Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.”

— 500 Days of Summer, amazon.com

“As you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends--hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“Sometimes people just don't want to play with you, and that's okay.”

— Suzanne Warren, rollingstone.com

“True friends are always there for you. Fake friends only appear when they want something from you.”

— Unknown, amazon.com

“Friends are supposed to make you feel good about yourself. Just remember that.”

— KatyScar, facebook.com

“My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”

— George R.R. Martin, amazon.com

“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.”

— Angelita Lim, goodreads.com

“The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground. They are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.”

— Alexandre Dumas, amazon.com

“Family is not an important thing, it's everything.”

— Michael J Fox, amazon.com

“I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching they are your family.”

— Jim Butcher, amazon.com

“We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that…”

— David Levithan, amazon.com

“Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.”

— Chris Bradford, amazon.com

“Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grassho…”

— Dale Carnegie, amazon.com

“America, we need more cities organized like those in Europe. Sorry, BP, you (and your profits) can suck an egg.”

— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com

“See, the great thing about guys is that we can become friends based on almost nothing. Just two guys will just become friends just because they're two guys. That's almost all we need to have in common. 'Cause sports—sports and women—is really all we talk about. If there was no sports and no women th…”

— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“Michael: So to prepare to meet all of you, I studied the human concept of friends. I even watched all ten seasons of the show 'Friends'. Boy, those friends really were friends, weren't they? Although — and I realize this is the kind of observation that would only occur to the mind of an eternal bein…”

— Dylan Morgan, Josh Siegal, Michael, Ted Danson, imdb.com

“We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall, I will pick you up.”

— Unknown, twitter.com

“Okay, look, I know I’m not all emotionally available or able to experience empathy like Zoey, but I can pretend to give a shit for a few minutes.”

— Craig Doyle, Ali Kinney, Ana Torres, Francia Raisa, imdb.com

“So that’s a long-term personal goal for you: Find the freaks and the overenthusiastic puppies. Treat them well. Overshare with oversharers.”

— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com

“Though I do worry hanging out is a gateway drug to harder stuff.”

— Dan Klein, Lynette, Elizabeth Alderfer, imdb.com

“You can’t invest in what random unproven friends and acquaintances think of you. It’s a massive, self-destructive waste of time. Do exactly what you want at all times without managing their experience of you.”

— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com

“No one is going to make our friendships for us. But if we’re as anxious, broke and lonely as the internet suggests, battling our imposter syndrome in increasingly tiny apartments (as the stats say we are), then maybe that’s exactly why we need to resurrect and reform an oft-forgotten social relic: t…”

— Molly Conway, manrepeller.com

“There's somebody out there that is watching this and hasn't done that – hasn't killed people, and wants to, and rages inside and struggles with that feeling, or is so sure they have it under control. They need to talk to somebody about it. Trust somebody enough to sit down and talk about something t…”

— Edmund Kemper, youtube.com

“I just wanna drink tequila with my friends. They're the reason that I still am who I am.”

— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com