„O tell me I yet have a friend,
Though a friend I am never to see.“

„The howls of Cerberus, though resembling thy music, will be less offensive to me, for I have never been the friend of Cerberus, and I need not be ashamed of his howling.“

—  Henryk Sienkiewicz, книга Камо грядеши

Letter of Petronius to Nero, Ch. 73
Quo Vadis (1895)
Контексте: Rome stuffs its ears when it hears thee; the world reviles thee. I can blush for thee no longer, and I have no wish to do so. The howls of Cerberus, though resembling thy music, will be less offensive to me, for I have never been the friend of Cerberus, and I need not be ashamed of his howling.

„It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.“

—  H.P. Lovecraft American author 1890 - 1937

„I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.“

—  Ernest Hemingway, книга A Farewell to Arms

Источник: A Farewell to Arms

„Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long Absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: Absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.“

—  Alexander Pope eighteenth century English poet 1688 - 1744

Letter, written in collaboration with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, to Jonathan Swift, December 14, 1725.

„I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.“

—  Haruki Murakami, книга Norwegian Wood

Источник: Norwegian Wood

„I am: yet what I am none cares or knows,
My friends forsake me like a memory lost:
I am the self-consumer of my woes,
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost:
And yet I am, and live with shadows tost“

—  John Clare English poet 1793 - 1864

I am
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

„It’s good to see your friends happy, isn’t it? (Nick)
How would I know? I have no friends. People basically suck and all friends will screw you over in the end. Take my word for it. (Savitar)
Then why am I here? (Nick)
Hell if I know. (Savitar)“

—  Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965

Источник: Unleash the Night

„As a rule I never read bad reviews about myself because my best friends invariably tell me about them.“

—  Oscar Levant, книга The Memoirs of an Amnesiac

The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)

„In the places I go there are things that I see
That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.
I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends.
My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!“

—  Dr. Seuss, книга On Beyond Zebra!

On Beyond Zebra! (1955)

„For I am more selves than Neville thinks. We are not simple as our friends would have us to meet their needs. Yet love is simple.“

—  Virginia Woolf, книга The Waves

Bernard, section III
The Waves (1931)

„Adieu, adieu, I am going to see up there [after death] whether friend Corot has found me any new subjects for landscape painting.“

—  Charles-François Daubigny French painter 1817 - 1878

Quote, as recorded by Albert Wolff, 1880's, in Notes upon certain masters of the XIX century, - printed not published MDCCCLXXXVI (1886), The Art Age Press, 400 N.Y. (written after the exhibition 'Cent Chefs-d'Oeuvres: the Choice of the French Private Galleries', Petit, Paris / Baschet, New York, 1883, p. 74
Daubigny's final thought for art in 1878 was appearently strongly connected with Corot.
1860s - 1870s

„You and I will always be friends."

"Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.“

—  Oscar Wilde, книга Портрет Дориана Грея

Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray

„The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.“

—  Haruki Murakami, книга Sputnik Sweetheart

Источник: Sputnik Sweetheart

„It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know I was never so happy in my whole life.“

—  Stephen Chbosky, книга The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Вариант: And she kissed me. It was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
Источник: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

„I have friends among beggars
And can speak their language.
I have friends among rulers
And can understand their strategies.
So fear not, o stranger,
That you may be misunderstood,
Speak your heart of your trouble
And trust me to help solve it.“

—  Dilip Sankarreddy Business professional

Wanderings with Poetry (2007)

„The stranger is simply a friend I haven't met yet.“

—  Catherine Doherty Religious order founder; Servant of God 1896 - 1985

Источник: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 15

„O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath —
America will be!“

—  Langston Hughes American writer and social activist 1902 - 1967

Let America Be America Again (1935)

„I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.“

—  Alice Hoffman Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer 1952

Источник: Incantation

„I have found yet another friend here. And with such a friend we will together form a team, like a soccer team. This will be a fighting team.“

—  Hugo Chávez 48th President of Venezuela 1954 - 2013

Hugo Chávez, referring to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, to reporters during a state visit to Minsk, Belarus, on July 25, 2006. http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2006/07/24/chavez_lauds_belarus_leader_as_friend/
2006