"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth." ― Herman Melville Topic(s): Friendship More From Herman Melville "Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?" "Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope." "Art is the objectification of feeling." More In Friendship "The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time."― Galina Vishnevskaya "Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."― Oliver Goldsmith "I like high impact movies."― Kathryn Bigelow