Quotes about "Friendship & Relationships"

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never. ”

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. ”

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge. ”

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. ”

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children. ”

I've heard people say, 'There are no bad audiences,' but that's just not true. There are people who just shouldn't be together in a room, who produce a really bad audience. ”

In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practices in one's immediate community. The advent of television vastly expanded the range of models to which members of society are exposed day in and day out. ”

Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things. ”

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy. ”

It's true that my stories seem to deal with the end of the world. I've often been called the high priest of gothic miserablism, which is slightly unfair. ”