„A friend cannot be considered a friend unless he is tested on three occasions: in time of need, behind your back and after your death.“

— Ali

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„If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?“
— Emil M. Cioran
„[T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right“
— Harper Lee
„Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Come as you are, as you wereAs I want you to beAs a trend, as a friend, as a known enemyTake your time, hurry upThe choice is yours, don't be late.“
— Kurt Cobain