"If a friend of mine gave a..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
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More on Friendship
“We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.”
“What are friends ? Friends are people that you think are your friendsBut they really your enemies, with secret indentitiesAnd disguises, to hide they true colorsSo just when you think you close enough to be brothersThey wanna come back and cut your throat when you ain't lookin'.”
“A friend is a second self.”
More on Sorrow
“And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.”
“Sorrow ages you prematurely. When you're in emotional debt, you're pessimistic about the future and, even in your green years, long to return to the past to remedy the shortfalls of love and opportunity you suffered.”
“For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.”