5 quotes
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949)
Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..."
The Four Loves (1960)
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
The Four Loves (1960)
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
The World's Last Night (1952)
The doctrine of the Second Coming has failed, so far as we are concerned, if it does not make us realize that at every moment of every year in our lives Donne's question "What if this present were the world's last night?" is equally relevant.
The World's Last Night (1952)