Missing my friends quote: 90 Missing Friends Quotes For Your Far Away Best Friend

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90 Missing Friends Quotes For Your Far Away Best Friend

Ananya Bhatt | December 8, 2020 | Best Friend Quotes | 5 Comments

Looking for cute quotes about missing your best friends? We have rounded up the best collection of missing friends quotes, sayings, messages, captions, one-liners (with images and pictures) to let your best pal know how much you miss them.

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Friends are our lifelines. They are the perfect partners to crime with the most understanding shoulders to lean on. I’m sure you all must have the friends with whom you grew up sharing your emotions, joy, laughter, pain. and a lot more.

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But as we grow up, you may have to part with your friends due to long-distance, break-up, responsibilities, death, etc. At times you long to be with your old friends and re-live your childhood, school or college days.

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These missing friends quotes will surely remind them how special they mean to. Share your feelings with your far away BFF’s today with these heart-melting missing friends messages. Don’t forget to read our quotes about enjoying good company with friends.

“I miss my best friend.” Missing My Friend Quotes

“I miss how close we were.” Missing You Friend Quotes

“Friendship is… missing you like crazy.” Missing Friends Quotes

“I miss those days when we all were friends.” Missing Old Friends Quotes

“I just wanted you to know you were missed. ” Missing My Best Friend Quotes

“I miss my friend like an idiot misses the point.”

“When I miss my, best friend, I miss my happiness.” Missing Best Friend Quotes

“Missing my friends! Distance + Friendship = S*cks!”

“I only miss you when I’m breathing.” – Jason Derulo

“Distance means so little when someone means so much.” Missing Friends Messages

“It is lonely here and I miss your light.” – Ranata Suzuki

“You’re everywhere except right here and it hurts.” – Rupi Kaur

“You are the person I’ll never stop looking for in a crowded place. ”

“I miss you in waves and tonight I’m drowning.” – Denice Envall Miss You Friend Quotes Images

“This is me… Missing you… And waiting for you to come visit me!!!”

“Missing her kept him awake more than the coffee.” – John Green

“When I miss you, I re-read our old messages and smile like an idiot.”

“Sometimes memories sneak out of my eyes and roll down my cheeks.” Missing Friends Captions

“I wish I had done everything on earth with you.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.” – Saint Augustine

“Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.”

“My dear friend, I miss you very much. I want to share so much with you. ”

“Missing someone is your heart’s way of reminding you that you love them.”

“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.” – Richard Wilbur

“Missing our friend is missing ourselves from the world.” – Sashank Varma

“One of the worst things in the world is to miss your BFF, so come back soon.” Quotes About Missing Friends Memories

“Half of me is missing … and the other half is missing you.” – Ranata Suzuki

“True friends, isn’t being inseparable, it’s being separated and nothing changes.”

“I don’t miss you. I miss the laughs, smiles, good times and the way things were.”

“They said: “Write the longest sentence you know.” I wrote: “A life without you.”.”

“When I say I miss school, I mean my friends and the fun, Not the studying part. ”

“If I miss you any harder my heart might come looking for you.” – Gemma Troy

“Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too.”

“Sometimes it’s not about missing someone, it’s wondering if they are missing you.”

“My world is thinning and it’s all because of one person I’m missing.” – Sanober Khan

“I have no regrets. Life tore us apart but I’m glad I had the chance to call you my friend.”

“Sadness is… when everything you do reminds of you your best friend but she’s far away.”

“Good friends are like stars, you don’t always see them but you know they’re always there.”

“The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?” – Nicholas Rowe

“Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.” – Tryon Edwards

“If ever I see you smile and know that it is not for me, that is when I will miss you the most. ”

“Together we were unstoppable so I miss you now that we are no longer together, my friend.”

“Missing someone enlightens how the person means to you and broadens the feelings shared.”

“The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.” – Sarah Dessen

“That friend who you may not see very often, but the moment you reconnect feels like yesterday.”

“I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with.”

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” – Nicholas Sparks

“I feel like missing old friends that probably don’t miss you is pointless. But, I let myself do it anyway.”

“Miles don’t influence our friendship because love for you is always in my heart. I miss my best friend!”

“Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!” – Francis Kazinczy

“Many people will walk in and out of your life. But, only true friends will leave footprints on your heart.”

“You know someone is very special to you when days just don’t seem right without them.” – John Cena

“Goodbyes are not forever, goodbyes are not the end, they simply mean I’ll miss you, until we meet again…”

“If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden.” – Claudia Grandi

“Life moves on, but memories don’t. You may have gone away but our friendship is right here… in my heart.” Missing Friends Quote

“Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.” – Alexander Dumas

“It’s crazy how you can go months or years without talking to someone but they still cross your mind every day.” Missing Long Distant Friends Quotes

“Whenever I miss my friends, I look to the sky, although I can’t see them there, I know we are under the same sky. ”

“I know that miles and distance don’t matter in friendship. But who’s going to explain that to my heart? I miss you.” I Miss You My Dear Friend Images

“Sometimes, it’s not the person that you miss but the feelings and the moments you had when you were with them.”

“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.” – A. A. Milne

“Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.” – Robert Brault

“When we miss someone, often what we really miss is the part of us that this someone awakens.” – Luigina Sgarro

“That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.” – Pittacus

“No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. ” – Jean De La Bruyere

“A day without you is like a day without coffee. And you know how much I love my coffee, Right? Missing you big time!”

“Life moves on, but memories don’t. You may have gone away but our friendship is right here, in my heart. I miss you.”

“Though miles may lie between us, we are never far apart, for friendship doesn’t count miles it’s measured by the heart.”

“There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance.” – Dodinsky

“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse De Lamartine

“As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.” – Alcibiades

“We don’t talk every day and we don’t see each other often, but I know that if you’ll be always my side. I miss my best friend.”

Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them. ”

“It doesn’t matter even if you are far away from me, you will always be on my heart. I miss you my bff and love you infinitely.”

“Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle Everything I do is stitched with its color.” – W.S. Merwin

“All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.” – William Shakespeare

“The most beautiful discovery that friends make is that they grow separately without growing apart.” – Elizabeth Foley Quotes About Missing Best Friend

“Cherish those people who have the ability to touch you and still be thousands of miles from your presence.” – Rachel Wolchin

“Missing your best friend is seeing the empty seat beside you and knowing that your day is not the same without them in it.”

“Rise up, wise up, say it loud. Soul, I will not lie to you. I’m all alone. I’m still missing you, missing you, missing you.” – Tegan Quin

“The memories we have created together are priceless. I can’t wait for creating new ones! I miss best friend and I am waiting for you.”

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” – C.S. Lewis

“Friendship is unbreakable by distance and unchanged by time. Our friendship is genuine and nothing and nobody will destroy it.”

“There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real.”

“The pain is not on the day of missing our friends. The pain is really when you live without them and with their presence in your mind.”

“I don’t know what they are called the spaces between seconds- but I think of you always in those intervals.” – Salvador Plascencia

“Can miles truly separate you from friends…. If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” – Richard Bach

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.” – Bill Watterson

“A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.”

“I am proud to call you my best friend and it doesn’t matter what happens in life, I can always count on you. I miss my best friend very much.”

“I miss you. Not in the cheesy, let’s hold hands way. But plain and simple. I just miss you, your presence and how you always use to be there.”

“I miss our conversations. I miss how we used to talk every minute of every day and how I was able to tell you everything that was on my mind.”

“When you miss someone in your life,just close your eyes and think the things that you do when you are with each other. ” – Jeramae Panabia

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” – Robert Southey

“I wonder if that’s just how it feels to miss someone so bad like being stabbed in the gut a little bit, each time you think of them.” – Kate Ellison

“I miss the old days. Even if we become older, our hearts remain the same. I miss you my dear best friend and can’t wait for the moment to hug you.”

“When you miss me just look up to the night sky and remember, I’m like a star; sometimes you can’t see me, but I’m always there.” – Jayde Nicole

“My world is a million shattered pieces put together, glued by my tears, where each piece is nothing but a reflection of YOU.” – Sanhita Baruah

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” – Henry David Thoreau

“It is wonderful that having such a genuine and strong friendship like us. It is as true as the sun rises every single day. I miss you my dearest friend.”

“When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.” – Taylor Swift

“Missing someone doesn’t always mean you need to have them back in your life. Sometimes you just feel there absence in present.” – Anurag Prakash Ray

“I’m not your heart but I miss you. I’m not your family but I care for you. I’m not your blood but I’m ready to share your pain because I’m your stupid friend!”

“You realize how much you truly miss someone when something happens, good or bad, and the only person you want to tell is the one person who isn’t there.”

“It isn’t about how much time we spend together, it will always be not enough for me. You are a part of my soul that lives in another body. I miss you my best friend.”

“There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you’ll miss their companionship and you’ll also miss their disrespect. ” – Michael Bassey Johnson

“Missing someone gets easier every day. Because even though you are one day further from the last time you saw them, you are one day closer to the next time you will.”

“Even if life tries to tear us apart and you are far away, you are always with me in my heart. As you know, our connection isn’t physical, it’s spiritual. I miss you my best friend.”

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay

“I remember the way we argued, but still remained glued. I think about the way we shared, and for each other how we cared. I remember all the promises we made, I hope that our friendship never fades.”

“When I miss you, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of you, not to remind me of you but to make me feel as if I’m with you. It makes me forget the distance and capture you. ” – LeBron James

“I miss my best friend. I miss how we used to be. I miss all the memories we had. But, now, she’s making memories with her new best friend. I’m out of the picture. She forgot about me, but I can’t forget about her.”

“Missing someone isn’t about how long it has been since you’ve seen them, or the amount of time since you’ve talked. It’s about that very moment when you’re doing something and wishing they were right there with you.”

“I’m never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a welcome can be found.” – Helen Oyeyemi

“Missing someone is the reverberating echo of everything beautiful about her her laugh, her song, her touch, her smell, the power of her words, and the constant shadow that lingers on as her perfect image in your memory.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

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158+ Best I Miss My Best Friend Quotes For Missing Friends

In our fast paced life, missing friends is completely normal because friendships are among the most valuable relationships we have. You can express your feelings and gratitude with I miss my best friend quotes.

If you’re searching for amazing sayings to share with the people you love or just want to feel inspired yourself, browse through an amazing collection of best friend quotes, good afternoon quotes and paragraph to your best friend.

Top I Miss My Best Friend Quotes

Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You too? I thought that no one but myself. C.S. Lewis

When you miss someone…. it’s weird … your body doesn’t function normally. As it should. Because I miss you, and my heart…it’s not steady…my soul it sings numb. Fingers are cold…like you…your soul. Coco J. Ginger

There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance. Dodinsky

Even if life tries to tear us apart and you are far away, you are always with me in my heart. As you know, our connection isn’t physical, it’s spiritual. I miss you my best friend.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth. Robert Southey

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. C.S. Lewis

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and specially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. Jim Morrison

I am proud to call you my best friend and it doesn’t matter what happens in life, I can always count on you. I am feeling blessed thanks to you. I miss my best friend very much.

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. Richard Wilbur

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Nicholas Sparks

Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.

I’m never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a welcome can be found. Helen Oyeyemi

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anaïs Nin

Miles don’t influence our friendship because love for you is always in my heart. I miss my best friend!

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. Lamartine

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. Tryon Edwards

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. Barbara Kingsolver

Cherish those people who have the ability to touch you and still be thousands of miles from your presence. Rachel Wolchin

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. Elizabeth Foley

When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster. Taylor Swift

All days are nights to see till I see thee, and nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. William Shakespeare

Can miles truly separate you from friends…. If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? Richard Bach

My world is a million shattered pieces put together, glued by my tears, where each piece is nothing but a reflection of YOU. Sanhita Baruah

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night. Bill Watterson

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses. Caleb Carr

If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever. A. A. Milne

That friend who you may not see very often, but the moment you reconnect feels like yesterday.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Woodrow T. Wilson

When I miss you, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of you, not to remind me of you but to make me feel as if I’m with you. It makes me forget the distance and capture you. LeBron James

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus

Rise up, wise up, say it loud. Soul, I will not lie to you. I’m all alone. I’m still missing you, missing you, missing you. Tegan Quin

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him. Saint Augustine

Distance means so little when someone means so much. Today, I read short poems about friendship, and I want to say your friendship is really important to me and I miss you so much.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. David Tyson Gentry

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one. C.S. Lewis

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. Jean De La Bruyere

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. Alexander Dumas

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated. Alphonse De Lamartine

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant. Socrates

Missing her kept him awake more than the coffee. John Green

Maybe I can’t stop the downpour, but I will always join you for a walk in the rain.

Friendship is not about people who act true to your face. It’s about people who remain true behind your back.

Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it’s one day further from the last time you saw each other, it’s one day closer to the next time you will.

Your friends should motivate and inspire you. Your circle should be well rounded and supportive. Keep it tight. Quality over quantity, always.

I just wanted you to know you were missed.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. Henry David Thoreau

If I had a single flower for every time, I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden. Claudia Grandi

It’s not the length of time we knew someone that makes them so special. It’s what they brought into our lives. Sandra Kring

I miss you in ways that not even words can understand. Gemma Troy

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. Helen Keller

If I could plant a flower for every time, I miss you, I could walk through my garden forever.

Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle Everything I do is stitched with its color. W.S. Merwin

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. Alcibiades

I am summer yearning for a drop of your rain. Gemma Troy

Half of me is missing … and the other half is missing you. Ranata Suzuki

Missing Friends Quotes To Express Your Feelings

Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too.
The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? Nicholas Rowe
You’re everywhere except right here and it hurts. Rupi Kaur
When you miss me just look up to the night sky and remember, I’m like a star; sometimes you can’t see me, but I’m always there. Jayde
Friends don’t let friends do silly things alone. And I miss our cute selfie captions.
You are the person I’ll never stop looking for in a crowded place.
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream. George Linley
The thing is that you brought this out in me. How could I want it with anyone else? Jmstorm
Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! Francis Kazinczy
I only miss you when I’m breathing. Jason Derulo
That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway. Pittacus Lore
The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it. Sarah Dessen
I wish I had done everything on earth with you. F. Scott Fitzgerald
If ever I see you smile and know that it is not for me, that is when I will miss you the most.
Missing someone is the reverberating echo of everything beautiful about her her laugh, her song, her touch, her smell, the power of her words, and the constant shadow that lingers on as her perfect image in your memory. Richelle E. Goodrich
I miss you in waves and tonight I’m drowning. Denice Envall
If it’s real they’ll find you no matter how far you go. R.M. Drake
My dear friend, I miss you very much. I want to share so much with you.
My world is thinning and it’s all because of one person I’m missing. Sanober Khan
I wonder if that’s just how it feels to miss someone so bad like being stabbed in the gut a little bit, each time you think of them. Kate Ellison
If I miss you any harder my heart might come looking for you. Gemma Troy
There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you’ll miss their companionship and you’ll also miss their disrespect. Michael Bassey Johnson
Friendship is unbreakable by distance and unchanged by time. Our friendship is genuine and nothing and nobody will destroy it.
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known – and even that is an understatement. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The memories we have created together are priceless. I can’t wait for creating new ones! I miss best friend and I am waiting for you.
My amazing best friend, I wish you were here for my birthday. Anyway, thanks for wishing me a happy birthday, my wonderful friend!
When you miss someone in your life,just close your eyes and think the things that you do when you are with each other. Jeramae Panabia
We don’t talk every day and we don’t see each other often, but I know that if you’ll be always my side. I miss my best friend.
It is lonely here and I miss your light. Ranata Suzuki
I can deal with anything in this world, except your silence. Varsid
Missing someone doesn’t always mean you need to have them back in your life. Sometimes you just feel their absence in present. Anurag Prakash Ray
I miss the old days. Even if we become older, our hearts remain the same. I miss you my dear best friend and can’t wait for the moment to hug you.
It doesn’t matter even if you are far away from me, you will always be on my heart. I miss you my bff and love you infinitely.
Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend. Robert Brault
You, my best friend, aren’t with me now, but despite this, I feel your support, love, and care through the miles. The awareness of being loved and respected light my day.
It isn’t about how much time we spend together, it will always be not enough for me. You are a part of my soul that lives in another body. I miss you my best friend.
I am grateful for your true friendship. Hope you birthday is amazing as you are my best friend! I wish you love, hope and everlasting joy and happiness. Happy birthday to my fantastic friend.
I wake to you everywhere. Yet you are not here. Nayyirah Waheed
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling into at night. I miss you like hell. Edna St. Vincent Millay
One of the worst things in the world is to miss your BFF, so come back soon.
It is wonderful that having such a genuine and strong friendship like us. It is as true as the sun rises every single day. I miss you my dearest friend.

Missing Best Friend Quotes

I miss my best friend.

Missing our friend is missing ourselves from the world. Sashank Varma

I miss how close we were.

You know someone is very special to you when days just don’t seem right without them. John Cena

Friendship is… missing you like crazy.

When we miss someone, often what we really miss is the part of us that this someone awakens. Luigina Sgarro

I miss those days when we all were friends.

Do you remember fun challenges to do with you. I miss those funny times.

I don’t know what they are called the spaces between seconds- but I think of you always in those intervals. Salvador Plascencia

However, if you think the growing apart can be reversed, you can try to reconnect with your friend and see if putting more time and emotion into the friendship can rekindle the bond you once had. Jan Yager

I miss my friend like an idiot misses the point.

My dearest friend / Where have you been / I miss you very dearly / You always been / That very near and special friend. Derek A. Chandler

When you part from your friend; you grieve not. / For that which you love most in him will be clearer in is absence, / as to mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. Kahlil Gibran

When I miss my, best friend, I miss my happiness.

My dearest friend / I been missing you since you been gone / I was not aware of how much you still cared / I hope you don’t feel alone / And feel as much fear as me my friend. Derek A. Chandler

I choose to choose for love. If my mind gets stuck in missing you, I will quickly choose again. My tears and lack of peace will be warning signs that I have chosen wrongly and have forgotten you. Doug Geiger

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. Samuel Johnson

Adios, my friend, / Off you go, / Adios , my friend, / I will miss you so. Sheri Allen

And now, even without seeing you, we go our own way hand in hand, In our realm that is an everlasting spring. Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

This is me… Missing you… And waiting for you to come visit me!

In times of separation, I affirm that our connection remains intact through spirit. Spirits lead our loving hearts and spirit knows no distance or separation. Julia Cameron

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace. Anne Shaw

When I miss you, I re-read our old messages and smile like an idiot.

Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire. Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Sometimes memories sneak out of my eyes and roll down my cheeks.

The heart may think it knows better; the senses know that absence blots people out. Elizabeth Bowen

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.

Remembering our loved ones is breathing life into their fading images, that we might once more see their faces and pass along a tearful ‘I miss you.’ Richelle E. Goodrich

He kisses me like he misses me, even before I have to go. C.J. Carlyon

I didn’t truly realize all the life that we’d shared together, and how it wouldn’t just be her person that I would miss, but all the things we’d shared together as friends. Katrina

It’s strange how many ways there are to miss someone. You miss the things they did and who they were, but you also miss who you were to them. The way everything you said and did was beautiful or entertaining or important. How much you mattered. Robin Roe

Missing someone is your heart’s way of reminding you that you love them.

How you can already miss someone when you are in the same room with them, I have no idea. But I do. Karen Harrington

Quotes About Missing Friends

Missing someone enlightens how the person means to you and broadens the feelings shared.

I feel like missing old friends that probably don’t miss you is pointless. But, I let myself do it anyway.

It’s crazy how you can go months or years without talking to someone but they still cross your mind every day.

I miss my friends, but even when they are not here, they still manage to make me smile.

I miss my friends. I wait was till we can all be back together again.

I know that miles and distance don’t matter in friendship. But who’s going to explain that to my heart? I miss you.

Time may pass, but not one day goes by that my friends aren’t in my heart. I miss them so very much.

Each time I remember all the moments we shared together, I wish we never have to separate like this, I miss you, my friend.

Sometimes, it’s not the person that you miss but the feelings and the moments you had when you were with them.

I know that distance isn’t meant to matter between true friends. But who’s going to explain that to my heart? I miss you.

A day without you is like a day without coffee. And you know how much I love my coffee, Right? Missing you big time!

My life just isn’t the same without you in it. I miss you, my friend.

My best friend may be out of my sight, but never out of my heart.

The pain is not on the day of missing our friends. The pain is really when you live without them and with their presence in your mind.

Missing Quotes For Friends

Many people will walk in and out of your life. But, only true friends will leave footprints on your heart.

Sometimes when I think of my friends, tears sneak out of my eyes and roll down my cheeks. I miss them so much.

Goodbyes are not forever, goodbyes are not the end, they simply mean I’ll miss you, until we meet again…

When I am with my friends, time just flies away. When we are apart, even seconds seem like days. I miss my friends so much.

Whenever I miss my friends, I look to the sky, although I can’t see them there, I know we are under the same sky.

I never understood the true value of our friendship until the day you left. And I’ve missed you every day since.

There are thousands of miles between us but deep down in my heart, you are close, I miss so many things about you, take care, my friend.

Though miles may lie between us, we are never far apart, for friendship doesn’t count miles it’s measured by the heart.

There is nothing harder than missing a friend unless you know that you will never see that friend again.

The most beautiful discovery that friends make is that they grow separately without growing apart. Elizabeth Foley

True friends are those friends that make you feel like something is missing when they are not around.

Missing your best friend is seeing the empty seat beside you and knowing that your day is not the same without them in it.

Nothing warms the heart like reconnecting with an old friend you’ve been missing.

A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.

I Miss You Messages for Friends

True friends, isn’t being inseparable, it’s being separated and nothing changes.

When you are with me, time just flies away. When you are not here, even seconds seem like days. I miss you.

I don’t miss you. I miss the laughs, smiles, good times and the way things were.

I miss you, my dear friend! I am so grateful for our friendship and all the little ways you bring joy and laughter into my life. Thanks for being such an awesome friend.

They said: “Write the longest sentence you know.” I wrote: “A life without you.”

You make the good times better and the tough times easier. I miss you, my dear friend. I hope you’re not missing me too much!

When I say I miss school, I mean my friends and the fun, Not the studying part.

If I could write a book right now, it would be titled 1000 ways to miss your BFF. I miss you.

You are the sister of my soul, the friend of my heart and the crazy reflection of my character. I miss you and can’t wait for our next meeting.

I have no regrets. Life tore us apart but I’m glad I had the chance to call you my friend.

Sadness is… when everything you do reminds of you your best friend but she’s far away.

I miss your warmth and care, and your gentle way of reminding me that there’s nothing I cannot do. Thanks for being a great friend! I miss you!

All the moments we spent together will forever be stored in my mind, no matter how far we are. I will always hold onto you, my dear friend, miss you so much.

I don’t want to be friends forever with you, because even forever seems like too short a time for our friendship. I miss you.

Good friends are like stars, you don’t always see them but you know they’re always there.

The one and only good part of missing you, is that I can rewind and replay all the beautiful memories we share… again and again. I miss you.

I miss you very much, darling! Know that I will be always there for you. If you fall, I’ll pick you up.. Just after I finish laughing.

Together we were unstoppable so I miss you now that we are no longer together, my friend.

I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with.

Nothing can be compared, to the memories we shared. The awesome times that we had, made everything so rad. But now I am going mad, missing you makes me sad. My heart can’t be repaired, without you my life’s impaired. I miss you.

Life moves on, but memories don’t. You may have gone away but our friendship is right here… in my heart.

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Inspire. Encourage. Learn. Educate.

I want you to live a good life.

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Let’s continue to lift each other up and create a positive community!

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I still use quotes and insightful articles everyday to motivate myself, learn and find inspiration. And I hope quotes will do the same to you.

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100+ BEST Missing Friends Quotes And Sayings [With Images]

Are you looking for the best missing friends quotes to share with your friends near and far?

Or looking for some heartfelt missing friendship quotes as you reminisce on your past and present friendships.

Then these quotes for missing friends are sure to have you feeling close to them even though you may be miles away.

Whether they are your best friend, childhood friends, or a friendship that is just blossoming, being away from true friends is never easy.

Especially on days of celebration such as their birthday and the holiday season.

So, if you are missing your friends, whether it be a special day or not, then we hope these quotes on missing friends will bring comfort and peace to you as you reflect on the special bond you share.

Here you’ll find the best quotes for missing friends, missing a friend quotes, miss you quotes for friends, missing best friend quotes, missing my friends quotes, I miss my best friend quotes, missing friends messages, I miss my friends quotes, and more.

And if you find comfort in these quotes about missing friends and memories, then make sure you check out these meaningful friendship quotes and friendship anniversary quotes!

Best Missing Friends Quotes

‘I miss my friends, but even when they are not here, they still manage to make me smile.’

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Missing My Friends Quotes

‘I miss my friends. I wait was till we can all be back together again.’

‘Time may pass, but not one day goes by that my friends aren’t in my heart. I miss them so very much.’

‘Sadness is missing your friends and not knowing when you might see them next.’

‘I miss the old days. Just hanging out with my friends without a care in the world.’

‘It’s crazy how you can go months or even years without seeing an old friend, but they still cross your mind every day.’

‘I miss my friends more than words can say.’

‘Even if I spend the whole day with my friends, I still miss them the second I leave.’

‘My friends and I are never apart. Maybe in distance but never in heart.’

‘I miss my friends! They may be a thousand miles away, but no one else is closer to my heart than them.’

‘I miss my friends every day.’

‘I know we don’t talk every day and we don’t see each other often, but I hope you always know that no matter I’ll be there if need me. I miss you, my friend.’

Quotes For Missing Friends

‘I miss those days when we all were friends.’

‘I miss my friends with all my heart.’

‘I will never stop missing my friends, even when I am with them.’

‘I miss my friends so much! I am counting down the days till I get to see them.’

‘I miss you, my friend. We may not see each other anymore, but you’ve left a huge imprint in my heart.’

‘Whenever I miss my friends, I think about all the beautiful memories we’ve made together and all the memories we are going to make when we see each other again.’

‘Some days I wish I could go back and relive days with old friends. Not to change anything, but just to feel a few things twice.’

‘I miss my friends more and more with each passing day.’

‘The hardest part of seeing your friends is knowing how much you are going to miss them when you leave.’

‘I miss my friends. They are the few people who may my world better just by being in it. ’

‘I miss all the good times my friends and I had together.’

‘Missing your friend is like seeing the empty seat beside you and knowing that your day is not the same without them in it.’

‘I wonder if my friends miss me as much as I miss them.’

Missing A Friend Quotes

‘Missing a friend and not being able to see them is the worst feeling ever.’

‘Missing a friend is your heart’s way of reminding you how important that friend is in your life.’

‘To my dear friend, just in case you didn’t know…I am really missing you.’

‘I miss all the laughs my friend and I used to have together.’

‘I miss my friend so much. We may have gone our separate ways, but the treasured memories will always remain.’

‘My dear friend, I’m missing you more than you’ll ever know.’

‘True friendship may resist time and distance, but that doesn’t mean your heart doesn’t miss having your friend near.’

‘The hardest part about seeing your friend is knowing you’ll have to say goodbye. ’

‘Life moves on, but memories don’t. You may have gone away but our friendship is right here…in my heart. I miss you.’

‘We may have gone our different way but I’m glad I had the chance to call you my friend. I miss you.’

‘I miss you! I can’t wait for the day you come back, my friend.’

‘Many people will walk in and out of your life. But it’s the friends that leave the footprints on your heart that you miss the most.’

Miss You Quotes For Friends

‘Friendship is…missing you like crazy.’

‘I miss you, my dear friend! I am so grateful for our friendship and all the little ways you bring joy and laughter into my life. Thanks for being such an awesome friend.’

‘Sometimes when I think of my friends, tears sneak out of my eyes and roll down my cheeks. I miss them so much.’

‘When I am with my friends, time just flies away. When we are apart, even seconds seem like days. I miss my friends so much.’

‘I never understood the true value of our friendship until the day you left. And I’ve missed you every day since.’

‘I know that distance isn’t meant to matter between true friends. But who’s going to explain that to my heart? I miss you.’

‘My life just isn’t the same without you in it. I miss you, my friend.’

‘There is nothing harder than missing a friend unless you know that you will never see that friend again.’

‘True friends are those friends that make you feel like something is missing when they are not around.’

‘Nothing warms the heart like reconnecting with an old friend you’ve been missing.’

‘I love all the memories we created together and can’t wait to see you again to create some more! I miss you, my friend.’

“I miss my friend and the special friendship we used to have.’

Missing Best Friend Quotes

‘My best friend may be out of my sight, but never out of my heart.’

‘I miss how close my best friend and I were.’

‘Sadness is missing your best friend and not being able to tell them. ’

‘I miss my best friend. They are the one person who has seen me at my worst and still loves me anyway.’

‘I miss my best friend! Our friendship has given me some of the most treasured memories of my heart.’

‘Sadness is when everything you do reminds you of your best friend, but they are far away.’

‘It’s funny how you can miss your best friend, even though you just saw them.’

‘The greatest gift in life I ever received was my best friend. I miss them so much.’

‘I miss my best friend. Things are never quite as scary when I’ve got them by my side.’

‘Whenever my best friend says, ‘I miss you’ I wonder if they know I miss them a million times more.’

‘I’m lucky to have you as a best friend but I’m unlucky to be so away from you. I miss you!’

‘I miss my best friend so much…It makes me sad.’

‘I miss your presence in my life. I miss you talking with you. Laughing with you. Crying with you. I miss my best friend.’

‘I miss my bestie so much more than the miles between us. ’

‘Sadness is not being able to give your best friend a hug.’

‘You never get over losing your best friend, you miss her for the rest of your days.’

Missing My Friends Quotes

‘When I spend time with my friends, the hours seem like seconds. When I leave, the days feel like years. I miss them the moment I leave.’

‘I just want to see my friends. I miss them so much.’

‘To my friends, I miss you! Even though I may be far away, just call and I’ll be there.’

‘When I’m missing my friends, I look back at photos and the memories we made. It reminds me how lucky I am to have them in my life.’

‘I miss my friends greatly.’

‘True friends are hard to leave behind and forever missed.’

‘I miss my friends a little more every day.’

‘I know we may longer be friends, but that doesn’t mean I don’t miss all the fun things we used to do together!’

‘Friendship is one of life’s greatest gifts. Unfortunately, you don’t realize this until you start missing your old friends. ’

‘I wish I could say losing a friend gets easier, but it doesn’t. I still miss them every day.’

‘True friends never go away, they walk beside us every day… unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear.’

‘Whenever I miss my friends, I look to the sky, although I can’t see them there, I know we are under the same sky.’

Missing Friends Messages

‘To my friends, I am really missing you right now.’

‘To my friends, I miss you all.’

‘Thinking of you, my dear friend.’

‘I just wondering how you are, my friend, and if you miss me at all…because I miss you. A lot!’

‘I wonder if my friends can feel it when I am missing them?’

‘Distance means so little between friends when those friends mean so much.’

‘If I was writing a book right now, it would be titled 1000 ways to miss your friends.’

‘Maybe we weren’t meant to be lifelong friends, but that doesn’t mean I don’t miss you. ’

‘I have many friends throughout my life, but none like you. I miss you.’

‘And she missed her friend very much, even long after she was gone.’

‘My dear friend, you will always be loved, never forgotten, and forever missed.’

‘I just want to hang out with my friends. I miss them so much.’

‘When I said goodbye to my friend, it was not the end of our friendship. It simply meant ‘I’ll miss you’ until we meet again.’

‘I genuinely miss having my friends around.’

I Miss My Friends Quotes

‘I miss my friends.’

‘I miss my friends. It hurts not having them close, but it would hurt even more if I didn’t have them at all.’

‘Sometimes I miss my friends so much it hurts. But when I think of all our memories together, I feel blessed.’

‘When I miss my friends, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of them, not to remind me of them but to make me feel as if I’m with them. It makes me forget the distance between us. ’

‘The friends you make in your childhood are the ones that you will miss the most when you are an adult.’

‘Happiness is seeing a friend you’ve been missing.’

‘I miss my friends when they are not around, but when we see each other, we just pick up where we left off.’

‘I love it when my friends and I all get together. It’s like the little bit of sunshine that my heart was missing.’

‘I never fully understood what the words ‘I miss you’ meant until I reached for my phone to call my friend and realized they weren’t going to answer.’

‘I miss my friends; the days just don’t feel right without them.’

Final Thoughts on Quotes About Missing Friends and Memories

Sometimes your friends move away, or your friendship ends but that doesn’t mean that you don’t miss having your friends around.

We hope these missing friendship quotes and missing a friend quotes have brought you comfort and peace to you as you reflect on the special bond you share.

And if you’re looking for more great quotes, then check out these guides on happy new year wishes for friends and family, best friendship quotes, and quotes about childhood friends.

Cute Missing Friends Quotes For Your Far Away Bestie

Have you ever gone through a phase of being away from your closest friends? Have you lost a friend unexpectedly? We bet all of us have gone through this heart-wrenching experience. Friendship is an essential ingredient in our lives. Unusually, the same circle of friends will stick around for you, but you might find few friends who will be there for you. We have listed a set of missing friends quotes so that you can remind them about how grateful you have been for their existence. Also, for those who have cut ties with you or lost a dear friend to death, you can choose the relevant quotes from below and use them accordingly to commemorate their memories. So, now go ahead and use our quotes when you miss your best friend.

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Best Missing Friends Quotes And Sayings

Besides a list of heart-touching missing friends quotes, we have added “miss you best friend’ short quotes and more too.

“There are people about whom we think every day.”

You might not talk to them every day, but you pray and wish good for them every day.

“There are some friends whom you don’t see or meet every day, yet you know they are there for you.”

You and your friends can be certain about each other that despite being not available each day, they will be the ones to push you through troubling times and support you.

“How strange is it when you can go without talking to someone for years yet get reminded of them every day!”

There are friendships and relationships which might have ended abruptly, or you don’t seem to connect well later on in life, but that does not mean you harbor any grudges towards each other. You still value the good memories that you both had created together before.

“Good friends are tantamount to the stars in the sky.”

The stars that you see in the sky are far away. However, you find a sense of comfort in watching the vast sky. This is similar to your connection to good friends. Despite the distance and lack of time, you seem to share something with them every time you end up making contact.

“We must have moved on, but the memories don’t seem to.”

A friendship might end up unanticipatedly over an argument or misunderstanding. Yet what lives on inside our minds are the memories. They never die.

“Friendships that never fade are truly blessed.”

With passing time, some friendships tend to change because the people involved in them change. However, those friendships where things remain the same after years are blessed enough to turn into an enduring bond.

“I remember, despite arguments, we have been glued to each other. I hope it stays forever.”

How deeply you think about your friendship is reflected in this quote. You can’t even seem to afford to lose a bond like this. So, you just let them know how badly you miss them if they are away or somewhere far from you.

“Look up, and you will realize that all this while you have been under the same sky.”

At times, when you end up missing your friend way too much, navigate your mind to see the brighter side. Acknowledge the fact that both of you are on the same planet and under the same sky.

*What are goodbyes for? They are usually a way to let the counterpart know that you are gonna miss them.”

Every time we say goodbye to someone, it usually conveys that we wish to see them sooner. And also, it expresses forthrightly that you are going to miss them for real.

“My mind knows that distance doesn’t matter, but who is going to convince my heart about it?”

This is a worrying thought inside our minds as we can calm our nerves, but we cannot seem to persuade our hearts that distance won’t affect every friendship.

“All I know is that our hearts are close to each other.”

In friendships that are distant, there is usually a fear of getting detached over time. However, this is not the case most of the time in the case of genuine heart-to-heart connections. While miles might separate them, their hearts resonate with one another.

Missing Old Friends Quotes

Looking for some “missing my childhood friends” quotes? Well, undeniably, missing your old friends is unbearable, be it childhood or any old buddies. To this end, we have listed below some quotes that are specially meant for your old buds!

“The utmost sense of comfort you might find is always with them.”

Just like you grew from being an immature kid to a mature adult, they were with you through your growth. It can even be that you must have offered advice to each other out of sheer stupidity and cluelessness and learned an array of life lessons together.

“Missing your old friends is a sort of yearning to reminisce about the memories and past that you had together. ”

Well, we know that dwelling in the past is not beneficial. However, there are days when we would wish to take a trip down memory lane. And this is the thing which you would prefer recalling with your old friends whom you had spent most of your childhood phase with.

“Old friends represent warmth and comfort.”

Friendship is all about comfort, positivity, and happiness. The old ones are those who bring warmth and comfort to your lives. They provide you serenity in the midst of chaotic life.

“You don’t need to find something in common with the ones whom you have known since you were a kid.”

Just know that old friends are those with whom most of your choices and preferences are in common. Or what if we say lives are common? You can give it a thought as well.

“Old friends keep you grounded.”

When you come back to your old friends, you will find that old friends keep you grounded for life. You never forget your roots because of them.

Quotes About Missing A Friend That Has Passed Away

Losing friends to death is unthinkable. To this end, we have prepared some “missing a friend in heaven” quotes for that special soul. So let’s read them too.

“The best of friends are loved and remembered for who they were even in their death.”

As you grieve at the death of your friend, you would never want the memories to fade away. The responsibility of respecting and preaching his legacy is what you end up showing without being asked.

“Friendship always seems to transcend death.”

The memories you both had created will continue to live even after their demise. The impression that they had left behind about themselves is what is cherished forever.

“I am reminded of them with a phrase or a joke that they had cracked while they were around.”

When you value someone, you will end up trying your best to remember their existence through their actions and words. These are the things that will keep them close to your heart.

“Losing a friend to death is like losing a part of yourself.”

Friends are those who seem to become a part of you. You both used to share fragments of yourself with each other. This is close to incorporating some of their parts to yourself.

“Celebrating the memories your friend gave you is cherishing their life in entirety.”

When you get reminded of a great friend even after they have passed away, you just wish to meet them in each lifetime. You can’t wait to be there with them together again, although it might seem like an illusion. That’s how bad you crave for their existence.

Quotes About Missing Your Best Friend Who Lives Far Away

Does distance separate you and your bestie? Below are some heart-touching quotes for missing friends who are far away from you.

“I miss you like crazy. And this makes me sad often.”

When you both have been together for most of your life and then someday when you are bound to move to some other place, that distance between you makes your heartache so much that it upsets you.

“Just like the way an idiot misses the point, I miss you that much.”

You want them to know how worse missing them seems like. You feel like a part of you has left you.

“Missing a best friend is like trying to forget what happiness is.”

Friendship is what happiness feels like. When you miss your best friend, you feel like your happiness has been scraped off.

We all miss our besties or old friends when they shift their base to far-away places for professional and other reasons. In such a case, do not keep your feelings to yourself. Let your bestie know how significant they are in your life by sending across a thoughtful quote and making him feel valued and precious. If you are not very great with your words, choose the above missing friends quotes that can perfectly convey your emotions. If you are missing a friend who is no more, go through these quotes and commemorate your memories with them.

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35 ironic (but wise) quotes about relationships from famous people

Frame from the film «Roman Holiday» petty pranks, and sometimes outright wars for jointly acquired property. In a word, this magnificent feeling cannot be described by ballads and romances alone — sometimes, in order not to go completely crazy, one simply cannot do without humor. Fortunately, famous people know this like no other, and we are ready to present you with a selection of their funniest sayings about marriage, sex, infidelity, living together and other “charms” of relationships between lovers.

About sex

A still from The Seven Year Itch

“Love is the answer. But while you’re waiting, sex can raise some pretty interesting questions.» Woody Allen, director.

“All my mother told me about sex was that the man should be on top and the woman should be on the bottom. That’s probably why for the first three years my husband and I slept on a bunk bed.” Joan Rivers, actress.

“There are so many stupid ideas about this physical love. In my opinion, the dentist is even more pleasant. Evelyn Waugh, writer (from the novel Vile Flesh).

«Acquaintance breeds contempt — and children.» Mark Twain, writer.

«I don’t know anything about sex because I’ve always been married.» Zsa Zsa Gabor, old Hollywood actress.

«Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position is ridiculous, and the costs are huge.» Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.

About unexpected insights

Frame from the movie «How to Steal a Million»

«Archaeologists are always the best husbands, because the older his wife gets, the more he takes an interest in her.» Agatha Christie, writer

“Before you marry someone, look at how they behave in front of a computer with very slow internet. That’s the only way you’ll know who he really is.» Will Ferrell, actor.

“I like being married. It’s so great to find that one and only one that you’ll piss off for the rest of your life.» Rita Rudner, comedian.

“Marriage is like a bank card. You put it in, you take it out, and you lose interest.” Irvin Corey, American actor, public figure.

“I recently found out that all penguins are monogamous. And it didn’t surprise me, because that’s exactly what they look like. I mean, it’s not very likely that one day one penguin will leave the other in search of a prettier penguin.» Ellen DeGeneres, actress and TV presenter.

«Many men fall in love with a dimple in their cheek and mistakenly marry the whole girl.» Stephen Leacock, writer.

On female supremacy

Still from the film «Only Girls in Jazz»

«I don’t care if he’s rich, as long as he has a yacht, his own railroad and a personalized toothpaste. » Marilyn Monroe, in «Only Girls in Jazz»

«All rejected lovers should be entitled to a second try — with someone else.» Mae West, «godmother of naked dresses», actress, sex symbol of old Hollywood.

«Behind every great man is a woman who rolls her eyes at the time.» Jim Carrey, actor.

«God gave the man a brain and a penis, but apparently not enough blood supply to function both at the same time.» Robin Williams, actor.

Still from the movie «Sweet Life»

«Girls, I noticed one thing: all the men who usually look after me are married to skinny ones.» Sophie Tucker, singer.

“If not for women, we would still live in caves and eat raw meat. After all, we created civilization only to impress our girlfriends. Orson Welles, director.

«I have a little low self-esteem — so every time I have sex, I fantasize that someone else is in my place. » Richard Lewis, comedian.

“I don’t understand why women want everything that men have. After all, women, in addition to everything else, have men. Coco Chanel, fashion designer.

About everyday life

Still from Breakfast at Tiffany’s

“In the morning I always bring my wife tea in her pajamas. Do you think she’s grateful? No, she would prefer it if I brought her tea in a cup. Eric Mocum, comedian.

«Marriage is between two people who are always ready to swear that only the other member of the union is snoring.» Terry Pratchett, writer.

«Only a blind woman and a deaf man can have a good marriage.» Michel de Montaigne, French writer, philosopher.

«A husband is a guy who will always say you overdid your lipstick.» Ogden Nash, poet.

Frame from the movie «Let’s make love»

“I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I just didn’t want to interrupt her.» Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian.

“My fights with my wife are like a rock concert. First, we introduce something new, and at the end, we will definitely move on to our greatest hits.” Frank Skinner, writer.

«Marriage is a real test because you have to deal with feelings and lawyers.» Richard Pryor, actor.

Disappointment

Shot from the film «Sweet Life»

«There must be two people in life to whom you have every right to lie — a policeman and your girlfriend.» Jack Nicholson, actor.

«I was happily married four years out of ten.» Mark Watson, comedian.

Bigamy is having one more wife than you should. However, monogamy is the same.” Oscar Wilde, writer.

«Don’t trust couples who walk around holding hands all their lives, they’re just afraid that if they let go of their hands, they’ll kill each other. » Groucho Marx, actor.

Still from the film «The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie»

«When another takes your wife away, there is no better way for him to take revenge than to let him stay with her.» Sacha Guitry, playwright.

“When a man asks the woman he loves to marry him, this is the best compliment he can give her. And last». Helen Rowland, writer, journalist.

“Divorce is probably almost as old as marriage. Although I believe the marriage is a few weeks older.» Voltaire, writer, philosopher.

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Scandals and thefts, sausages and cigarettes, an apology for order and music that expresses nothing. We talk about the composer Igor Stravinsky through quotes from «The Chronicle of My Life»

Author Yaroslav Timofeev

Igor Stravinsky is the only composer in history who has remained at the epicenter of cultural life for 60 years. He became a celebrity in 1910 when he wrote the ballet The Firebird for Sergei Diaghilev’s Russian Seasons, and continued to create masterpieces in the late 1960s. As a child, he saw Tchaikovsky, in his old age he went to a personal audience with John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev. Stravinsky constantly changed styles and directions, but invariably remained a perfectionist — and therefore there are no two identical opuses in his legacy, just as there is not a single unsuccessful one.

BBC Music Magazine recently asked today’s music creators the question: «Who is the most influential composer in history?» Stravinsky took second place in the ranking, surpassing all his colleagues from the 19th and 20th centuries and only behind Bach. The source of this powerful influence on ears, minds and hearts lies primarily in Stravinsky’s music itself, but not only in it. His sharp, paradoxical and surgically accurate maxims also enlightened many minds, dispersing all over the world and becoming part of musical folklore. Stravinsky, in collaboration with his friend, writer and composer Walter Nouvel, wrote his first book in the first half of 1930s, calling it «Chronicle of my life». Here are 12 moments of this chronicle.

1. About the first musical impression

“A huge man sits at the end of a log. The sharp smell of resin and freshly cut wood tickles the nostrils. The man is wearing only a short red shirt. His bare legs are covered with red hair: he is shod in bast shoes. On the head is a mop of thick red hair; no gray hair — and it was an old man. He was mute, but he could click his tongue very loudly, and the children were afraid of him. Me too. However, curiosity still prevailed. We came closer, and then, to amuse the children, he began to sing. This chant consisted of only two syllables, the only ones he could ever utter. They were devoid of any meaning, but he chanted them with incredible dexterity and at a very fast pace. This clucking was accompanied by a peculiar accompaniment: he thrust his right palm under the armpit of his left hand and then, with a very quick movement, clapped his left hand on his right. At the same time, he managed to make a whole series of rather suspicious, but very rhythmic sounds, which, perhaps, could be called «smacking». This amused me to the point of madness, at home I began to diligently imitate him and became very interested in this occupation. Everything turned out so similar that I was forbidden to use such indecent accompaniment. Thus, only two tedious syllables remained to my lot, which, of course, lost all charm for me.

Igor Stravinsky in his high school years National Library of Russia

In the first flashback that Stravinsky’s memory preserved (or that he decided to present to us), there are almost all the keys to his aesthetics: uncut Russian folklore; theatricality; rhythm energy; speech freed from meaning, valuable as sound; combination of fear and delight; the joy of imitation. And, of course, the «rather suspicious» mixture of the sublime and the mundane, which Stravinsky adored to the end of his days.

It is felt that rural impressions were exotic for the composer: he spent most of his childhood in the capital and, like his friend George Balanchine George Balanchine Petersburger». Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, on Swiss Street, and grew up in a house on the Kryukov Canal, one minute walk from the Mariinsky Theater, where his father, the most authoritative Russian operatic bass of that era, served.

2. About Rimsky-Korsakov

“During this winter my poor teacher’s health failed. The frequent attacks of angina pectoris foreshadowed the near end. <...> I was very attached to him and sincerely loved him. It turns out that he answered me the same, but I learned about this only later from his relatives: with his characteristic restraint, all outpourings of feelings were alien to him.
Before my departure to the village, where I always spent my holidays, my wife and I went to say goodbye to him. This was our last meeting. <…>
When I returned to the village, I had an idea to honor the memory of my teacher. I wrote «The Funeral Song», which was performed under the baton of Felix Blumenfeld Felix Blumenfeld (1863–1931) — Russian conductor, pianist and composer. at the first Belyaev concert A long-term series of concerts organized by philanthropist Mitrofan Belyaev in St. Petersburg. The first such concert took place in 1884, the last in 1918. dedicated to the memory of the great composer. Unfortunately, the score of this work was lost in Russia during the revolution, along with many other things I left behind. I forgot this music, but I remember well the idea behind it. It was like a procession of all the solo instruments of the orchestra, placing their melodies in turn in the form of a wreath on the teacher’s grave, against the background of a restrained trembling rumble, like the vibration of low voices singing in chorus. This thing made a strong impression both on the public and on myself. Whether this was caused by the general grief or the dignity of the work itself, it is not for me to judge.

Igor Stravinsky (left) visiting Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. 1908 Scientific Musical Library named after S.I. Taneyev

Stravinsky’s upbringing of nobility assumed musical literacy, but he came late to professional composition studies. Regular lessons with Rimsky-Korsakov did not begin until 1904, when Stravinsky was twenty-two. The professor advised him not to enter the conservatory, so Stravinsky did not have a profile diploma until the end of his life Perhaps the passion for self-education that Stravinsky retained all his life was some kind of psychological compensation for him .. But a private teacher — by the way, never took from him money — was the best in Russia. Stravinsky adopted a lot from Rimsky-Korsakov — from the essential features of style to the manner of composing at the piano, wearing an astrakhan fur coat and two pairs of glasses (he liked to keep the second high on his forehead). Death of a teacher 8 June 19The year 08 was a huge loss for Stravinsky — obviously more significant than the loss of the score of the «Funeral Song», although he mourned the latter all his life.

These notes were found almost half a century after Stravinsky’s death. In 2015, when the library of the St. Petersburg Conservatory was moving due to repairs, a set of parts was found in one of the dusty boxes — they managed to restore the score. The following year, the world’s best conductors competed for the right to perform the first performance of «The Funeral Song» in different countries, and now we have at our disposal several recordings of Stravinsky’s first memorial work. For example, the premiere of «The Funeral Song» by Stravinsky performed by the Stanford Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Paul Phillips..

3. About the visit to the Wagner Festival

“…All the hotels are overcrowded. With great difficulty, we still managed to settle in the servants’ quarters. The performance I was present at now would not tempt me in any way, even if I were offered a room for free. Firstly, the whole atmosphere of the hall, its design and the audience itself seemed gloomy to me. It looked like a crematorium, and some very old-fashioned one, where a man in black was about to appear, whose duty it was to deliver a speech praising the dignity of the deceased. The fanfare called for concentration and listening, and the ceremony began. I shrank all over and sat motionless; after a quarter of an hour I became unbearable: my whole body was numb, I had to change position. Fuck! — the way it is! My chair creaked and hundreds of furious looks glared at me. I cringe again, but now I think only of one thing: the action would soon end and my torment would end. Finally the intermission comes and I am rewarded with a couple of sausages and a glass of beer. But before I have time to light a cigarette, the fanfare again calls me to concentrate and listen. One more action to take! And all my thoughts about cigarettes — I only managed to puff once! I will transfer this action too. Then — again a sausage, again a mug of beer, again a fanfare, again concentrate and listen to one more act — the last one. End!»

Concert Hall of the Festival Theater in Bayreuth. 1910s Andreas Praefcke’s postcard collection of theaters and concert halls worldwide

one composer. — was considered almost obligatory for every enlightened person. On August 19At the age of 12, Stravinsky ticked this box for himself, but he had no chance of catharsis, which the Wagnerians who had come from all over the world experienced in droves: already in his early years he realized that the magnet of the great operatic reformer repelled him. Dreams of cigarettes during «Parsifal», the most sublime Wagnerian creation, are a real insult to the feelings of believers, which Stravinsky allows himself with undisguised pleasure.

4. About self-restraint

“The need for restraint, self-imposed restraint, originates in the depths of our very nature and applies not only to the field of art, but to all conscious manifestations of human activity. This is the need for order, without which nothing can be created and with the disappearance of which everything falls apart.
And every order requires coercion. It would only be in vain to see this as a hindrance to freedom. On the contrary, restraint, restriction contribute to the flourishing of this freedom and only do not allow it to degenerate into outright licentiousness. In the same way, by borrowing a ready-made, consecrated form, the artist-creator is not in the least constrained by this in the manifestation of his individuality. I will say more: individuality stands out more clearly and acquires greater relief when it has to create within conditional and sharply defined boundaries.

Igor Stravinsky at the piano. 1929 © Getty Images

Stravinsky loved boundaries, order, and hierarchy. His appetite was whetted, for example, by the task of writing music that, to the nearest second, would lie on the spiral of a gramophone record. When Balanchine asked him to compose an episode of the ballet “one or two minutes long”, Stravinsky was annoyed: “This is nonsense. I must know for sure. If a minute, it will be one music, if two, it will be completely different. Maybe it will be a minute and thirty seconds? S. Volkov. Passion for Tchaikovsky. Conversations with George Balanchine. M., 2004. He was ready to endure anything but chaos, and, feeling like a victim of the revolution, until the end of his days he kept tenderness for the monarchy. According to legend, during Stravinsky’s only visit to the USSR in the fall of 19For 62 years, a cheerful correspondent for a large-circulation magazine asked him what his hobby was. The composer refused, the reporter insisted, and in the end he heard: «Well, let’s say I love birds.» — «Oh, that’s fine, but what is your favorite bird?» — Double-headed eagle.

5. About «The Rite of Spring»

“I did not have the opportunity to judge the performance during the performance, as I left the hall after the very first bars of the introduction, which immediately caused laughter and mockery. It angered me. The cries, at first isolated, then merged into a general rumble. Those who disagreed with them protested, and very soon the noise became such that it was impossible to make out anything. Until the very end of the performance, I remained backstage next to Nijinsky. Vaclav Fomich Nijinsky (1889–1950) — Russian dancer and choreographer of Polish origin, dance innovator. One of the leading participants in the Russian Ballet of Diaghilev.. He stood on a chair and frantically shouted to the dancers: «sixteen, seventeen, eighteen …» (they had their own special account to beat the beats). The poor dancers, of course, did not hear anything because of the commotion in the hall and their own clatter. I had to hold Nijinsky by the dress: he was so furious that he was ready to rush onto the stage and make a scandal. Hoping that by doing this he would be able to stop the noise, Diaghilev gave orders to the illuminators to either turn on or turn off the lights in the hall. That’s all that remains in my memory from this premiere.

Premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring at the Champs-Elysées Theatre. 1913 British Library

The evening of 29 May 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées was the loudest premiere in the history of classical music. The revolution began right from the first sound of The Rite of Spring, played by a bassoon in a high register, which had never happened before in any symphonic score. Camille Saint-Saens Charles-Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) — French composer, pianist, organist, conductor, music writer and public figure. Hearing the first measure of the ballet at the dress rehearsal, he asked: «What instrument is this?» When he was informed that a bassoon was playing, the 77-year-old composer immediately left the hall. Sharp irregular rhythms, explosive climaxes, unpredictable development of the material — all this created the effect of an elemental primitive force that burst into the center of Paris. The «anti-dance» choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky trampled the ideals of classical ballet into the ground with the same energy. For the bourgeois French public, the novelty of The Rite of Spring was not only stunning, but insulting. “For the first time in 60 years, they dared to mock me,” lamented the Countess de Pourtales. “Shut up, girls of the sixteenth,” Diaghilev’s young supporters shouted to her and her friends, referring to the district of Paris where prostitutes lived. The scandal escalated into a fight and required the intervention of the police. Stravinsky was depressed, but the perceptive impresario Diaghilev rubbed his hands with pleasure. A year later, The Rite of Spring will be performed in Paris in a concert performance and will become an absolute triumph for Stravinsky. After a standing ovation, the audience will carry him in their arms — this is probably the last such case in the history of classical music. The discoveries made by Stravinsky in the score of The Rite of Spring will in one way or another resonate in the music of almost every notable composer of the 20th century.

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6. About illness and Diaghilev

“I did not manage to see the next performances of The Rite of Spring and Khovanshchina: a few days after the premiere, I became seriously ill. I had typhoid fever and had to stay in the clinic for six weeks.
<…>
… I was surrounded by the most lively and touching participation of my friends. I was often visited by Debussy, de Falla, Ravel, Florent Schmitt, Casella In this five are the greatest composers of that era: French (Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, somewhat less famous Florent Schmitt), Italian (Alfredo Casella) and Spanish (Manuel de Falla) .. Diaghilev came almost every day, but he was so afraid of getting infected that he did not dare to enter the ward. This fear of infection was almost pathological in him, and his friends constantly ridiculed him.

Sergei Diaghilev and Igor Stravinsky. Spain, 1921 Victoria & Albert Museum

On June 3, 1913, Stravinsky, having dined on oysters, discovered that he was unwell: he was soon diagnosed with typhus. On June 11, he was transferred to the Villa Borghese private sanatorium in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. The illness overtook him between two grandiose premieres of the Russian Seasons: The Rite of Spring overnight made Stravinsky the largest revolutionary composer on the planet, and Mussorgsky’s opera Khovanshchina with Stravinsky’s finale, shown on June 5, finally quarreled him with the domestic musical community. The opera, not finished by the author, was previously performed only in Rimsky-Korsakov’s version, which in St. Petersburg circles was considered a more sacred artifact than Mussorgsky’s music itself. With his work, Stravinsky, in the opinion of most of his Russian colleagues, challenged a teacher whose death had not even been five years. Thus, the illness marked a symbolic boundary between Stravinsky’s Russian spring and his European summer.

Sergei Diaghilev was subject to dozens of superstitions — from the most common to specific ones. The dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar recorded a story that was known to all of Diaghilev’s entourage — about a London fortune teller who predicted the impresario’s death on the water and thereby deprived the shipping companies of a valuable client for many years. When colleagues learned about the sudden death of Diaghilev in Venice, there were fewer convinced materialists in the troupe.

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7. About music and time

“Music is the only area in which a person realizes the present. The imperfection of his nature is such that he is doomed to experience the fluidity of time, perceiving it in the categories of the past and the future and never being able to feel it as something real, and therefore stable, present. The phenomenon of music is given to us solely in order to bring order into everything that exists, including here, first of all, the relationship between man and time.

Igor Stravinsky in Venice. 1951 © Getty Images

Stravinsky took the adjective in the phrase “present time” in the most direct sense. Based on the biblical commandment «do not worry about tomorrow», he lived the current moment to the fullest and embodied this acuteness of the existence of «here and now» in music. He ends his «Chronicle» with the words: «I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I do not know what will happen tomorrow. For me, there is only the truth of today. This truth I am called to serve and serve it with full consciousness.”

8. About ideas

“I am reminded of a conversation between Mallarmé and Degas, heard from Paul Valéry. Once Degas, who, as you know, loved to write poetry, said to Mallarmé: “I can’t get the end of my sonnet. And this is not from a lack of ideas.” To which Mallarme meekly replied: “Ideas are not what sonnets are made of, they are made from words.”

Igor Stravinsky listens to the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform his work. 1961 © Getty Images

Stravinsky freely retells an episode from Paul Valéry’s report Poetry and Abstract Thought. He also created his scores not from ideas, emotions or plots, but from musical intervals that he spent hours looking for at the piano and carefully selected. He called sound combinations suitable for work «building material». The next step was the distribution of elements, and this activity brought the «architect» perhaps the greatest pleasure. The main thing in music, according to Stravinsky, is form, and meanings and meanings are not within the competence of the composer.

Stravinsky liked the self-definition «artisan» more than «creator», but this does not mean that he was shy about solutions found in irrational ways, including Freudian ones. “One day, having worked until late at night, I went to bed, still tormented by one interval. I dreamed about this interval. It took the form of an elastic substance, stretched exactly between the two notes of my composition, but at each end, under the notes, there was an egg, a large egg. They were gelatinous to the touch (I touched them) and warm, in protective nests. I woke up with confidence that my interval was correct” Stravinsky I.F. From dialogues with R. Kraft // Music and Modernity. Issue. 5. M., 1967..

9. About the portrait by Pablo Picasso

«From Naples I returned to Rome and spent a wonderful week with Lord Berners» Gerald Thirwitt-Wilson (1883-1950), known as Lord Berners, was a British aristocrat, composer, artist and writer.. After that, it was necessary to return to Switzerland and I will never forget the adventure that happened to me at the border in Chiasso. I was carrying with me my portrait, painted by Picasso not long before. When the military authorities began to inspect my luggage, they came across this drawing and did not want to miss it for anything. They asked me what it was, and when I said that it was my portrait, painted by one very famous artist, they didn’t believe me: “This is not a portrait, but a plan,” they said. “Yes, this is the plan of my face, and not anything else,” I assured. However, I failed to convince these gentlemen. All these wranglings took a lot of time, I missed my train, and I had to stay in Chiasso until the next morning. As for my portrait, I had to send it to the British Embassy in Rome in the name of Lord Berners, who subsequently forwarded it to me in Paris by diplomatic mail.

Pablo Picasso. Portrait of Igor Stravinsky. 1917 © Estate of Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso created a graphic portrait of Stravinsky in 1917 in Rome, a few days after they met. For anyone who has seen photos of Igor Fedorovich, the resemblance to the original is obvious, but the border guards can also be understood.

Stravinsky and Picasso are often compared as the pioneers of the 20th century in their countries: “The Spaniard Picasso in painting, the Russian Stravinsky in music, you see, the pillars of European art,” reported home from Paris at 1922 Vladimir Mayakovsky V. V. Mayakovsky. Parisian essays // Soviet writers about France. L., 1985 .. They had a common child, beautifully built and with a happy fate — the ballet «Pulcinella», sketches for the scenery for which Picasso handed over to Diaghilev on the third attempt. As a result, all three — the impresario, the composer and the artist — were satisfied with the performance. For Stravinsky, Pulcinella turned out to be a rediscovery of himself (more on that in the commentary to the next quote), Picasso, after working on the ballet, regularly reproduced the Italian Petrushka mask on his canvases for several years.

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10.

About the ballet Pulcinella

“I understood that, before embarking on this difficult task, I must give myself an answer to the main question that haunted me: what should prevail in my approach to Pergolesi Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736) — Italian composer era of early classicism. — respect for his music or love for it? Is respect or love pushing us to possess a woman? Is it not by the power of love alone that we comprehend the whole depth of the human being? Besides, does love exclude respect? Only respect in itself is always fruitless and cannot become a creative force. Creativity needs dynamics, a certain engine, but is there an engine in the world more powerful than love?

Lyubov Chernysheva, Leonid Myasin and Vera Nemchinova in Pulcinella. 1920 E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection

Based on the music of Pergolesi, Stravinsky created the ballet Pulcinella, one of the stylistic opuses of neoclassicism. The original of the 18th century is subtly distorted in Stravinsky’s «distorted mirrors», but Igor Fedorovich states with satisfaction: «… what is remarkable in Pulcinella is not how much, but how little is added or changed there» — I. F. Stravinsky. Dialogues. Memories, reflections, comments. L., 1971. . Later it turned out that in the pile of manuscripts given by Diaghilev to Stravinsky for work, there was music not only by Pergolesi, but also by his little-known contemporaries. Stravinsky did not notice the difference.

11. About the theft of the score of «The Nightingale»

“In Vienna, I read in the newspapers that during one of the rehearsals of Toscanini Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957) was an Italian and American conductor. orchestral score The Nightingale The Nightingale is an opera by Stravinsky based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Stravinsky began composing the opera at 1908, The Nightingale premiered in Paris on May 26, 1914. mysteriously disappeared from the hall. Apparently, taking advantage of the fact that Toscanini was absent for a short time, she was kidnapped from the console, where a few minutes before this maestro passed her with the orchestra. Searches were immediately made, and finally the score was found in the shop of an antiquary who had just bought it from some unknown person. This incident, which caused great excitement at La Scala, was already over by the time I arrived in Milan.”

Igor Stravinsky at work on the score for the opera The Flood. 1962 © Getty Images

Becoming a victim of such a theft is probably the dream of any modern composer, alas, almost unattainable. Stravinsky is clearly pleased that one of the employees of La Scala coveted precisely his score — in addition, he himself was hungry for someone else’s. In his declining years, Igor Fedorovich formulated a self-revealing maxim: «Everything that interests me, everything that I love, I want to appropriate (maybe I’m just describing a rare form of kleptomania)» L. Andriessen, E. Schoenberger. Apollo clock. About Stravinsky. SPb., 2003. . In the early years, Stravinsky «stealed» the musical quotations he liked, in the neoclassical period — compositional models and techniques, in his later years he borrowed a whole system of composition — Arnold Schoenberg’s serial writing Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874–1951) was an Austrian composer. The largest representative of musical expressionism, the creator of the serial technique of musical composition .. Of course, Stravinsky would not have issued a confession if he considered his crimes shameful: he needed someone else’s material to arouse the passion of a kleptomaniac, and through this passion — to create his own music, recognizable from the first notes.

12. About pure music

“Most people love music, hoping to find in it such feelings as joy, grief, sadness, or images of nature, or fantasy, or, finally, they simply want, listening to it, to forget the “prose of life”. They are looking for a medicine, an aphrodisiac in music… Music would be cheap if it were reduced to such a purpose! When people learn to love music for its own sake, when they listen to it differently, their enjoyment will be more sublime and full, then they will be able to judge it in a different way and really understand the inner essence of this art.

Igor Stravinsky conducting. 1962 © Arquivo Nacional (Brazil)

The ideal of “pure music” has been looming on the horizon of European art for more than a century, but, like any absolute, it is hardly achievable. Strictly speaking, when explaining how to listen to music, Stravinsky contradicts himself: his remark could be answered with the famous words of the composer Robert Schumann (“The best way to talk about music is to keep silent about it”), who, however, also said them. However, even a single attempt to tune your ear to the perception of «stravin» — without images, feelings and pictures — gives an amazing experience. “Music expresses nothing,” said Stravinsky, “except itself” From the film “Igor Stravinsky”. Directed by Maria Solovtsova. TV channel «Culture». 2006. If we do not expect music to express our feelings, but allow it to express itself, it will tell us much more. At least if it’s Stravinsky’s music.

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“From the image of a person in social networks, it is immediately clear what he is.” «Paper»

June 19, 2019

Paper and MegaFon are doing a special project on how the Internet and mobile communications affect the communication of St. Petersburg residents. Read how gadgets have changed, what it’s like to live without communication, and how residents of modern cities interact. We also conducted a survey on how St. Petersburg residents keep in touch with family, friends and colleagues.

MegaFon offers high-speed Internet, which allows you to instantly exchange data, chat or watch videos. The 4G network is available to subscribers in almost all regions of Russia.

How do social media pages form an opinion about a person, why is it important to observe etiquette in online communication and do spelling mistakes, ignored messages and old memes affect the impression of a friend or colleague?

Together with MegaFon Paper interviewed 826 readers and found out how they feel about other people’s online behavior. Why behavior in social networks can change the opinion of a person in real life — in eight arguments of survey participants.

In a questionnaire devoted to the communication of St. Petersburg residents over the phone and online, research department «Papers» asked whether the behavior of a friend, colleague or acquaintance online can affect the opinion about him in real life. Most of the readers — 80% — noted that they somehow form an attitude towards a person based on information about him received from social networks.

For example, many people say that social networks are a direct reflection of real communication, and the same rules apply there as offline.

“[In my life] it has never happened that an adequate person in personal communication behaved inappropriately in social networks. As a rule, if a person is strange, then on the page he has some kind of hell or an empty page.

“If this person is little known to me and I hardly communicated with him, his actions on the network — statements, entries on the page — will influence the formation of my idea of him. If this is my close friend, then his online behavior is unlikely to have a big impact on our communication, because, firstly, if it is something strange, then we will discuss it personally, and secondly, it can hardly be something that goes against my views.

Illustrations: Anna Kulakova / Paper

“I see no reason to separate communication into real and online. In any case, this is the communication of the same people according to the same rules. If something goes wrong and some of the participants feel uncomfortable, it doesn’t matter in what format of communication it happens: it means that there is a problem that is worth discussing.”

“Social networks have become such an integral part of life that it is immediately clear from the image of a person on the Internet what he is.”

According to readers «Papers» , on the Internet and in particular in social networks, people can behave and communicate more openly than in life, which can reveal both positive and negative aspects of their character.

“If a person is modest in everyday life, online he can reveal himself from an unexpected side – negative (rude, troll) or positive (singing, drawing).”

“On the Internet, people are usually bolder than in real life, which indicates a lot (for complexes, for example).”

«Internet pages and dialogues behind glass are extremely revealing and help in assessing the character of a person and his mess in the head.»

“Sometimes, after reading someone else’s Facebook page, I am unpleasantly surprised by the metamorphosis that happens to a nice acquaintance. In life, a normal person, on his page he is a super-liberal, or, conversely, a Stalinist, or a fighter for a healthy lifestyle, or a graphomaniac who floods the people with his poems. Or he churns out other people’s posts at a rate of one post in half an hour — and so every day. Social networks are a black hole, and often people just dump their madness there, not always realizing that they are actually being read — often by complete strangers.

The discrepancy between a person’s behavior online and offline for many readers is a reason to be wary or completely stop communicating with a person, since for them this indicates hypocrisy.

“Two-facedness is not a positive character trait. If a person behaves provocatively online, but usually in real life, then there is some problem.

“I won’t judge, but I don’t understand if a person actively shares what should remain private, or if his behavior on social networks will clearly contrast with his behavior in life.”

“I don’t like rudeness covered up by social media security. If a person cannot say a word in real life, but is a hero online, it repels me.”

Many readers noted that they pay attention to the values that a person transmits through social networks. If these views do not sharply coincide with the worldview of the informants, they lose confidence in such a person.

“At the very least, I will start to have less respect for a person if he posts all kinds of game, sexist jokes, posts about the microwave emitting black energy, and the like. Most often, if this happens, I turn the person off the tape.

“Posting hundreds of selfies or thousands of vacation photos, a bunch of reposts, stupid comments, publics he is a member of, and other things say a lot about a person. I don’t communicate with such people closely either in life or on the Internet. Friends have similar acquaintances — such as former classmates, classmates who are inconvenient to remove from friends.

“There was a moment when a respected teacher online behaved like an inadequate “quilted jacket”: this person ceased to be an authority for me.”

“In social networks, a person gives a picture of how he wants to look in my eyes. Misogyny, sexism, homophobia, racism, manifestation of religion, rabid patriotism — all these markers of non-handshake are perfectly manifested in social networks.

“Live communication is more meaningful, but [not if] 50 percent of the groups a person is in are porn, and you know for sure that a classmate does not write a term paper on them. ”

“If a person posts some wild things on the Internet: murders, Nazism, intolerance, and the like, it is unlikely that I will meet him in person.”

For many readers, a profile in social networks is a means by which you can find out the interests of a person, discover their similarity with your own. Sometimes this leads to a desire to communicate and get closer.

“In order to more or less get to know a person, you need to communicate with him for quite a long time. In social networks, you can see who his friends are, what kind of music he listens to and how he thinks in general (especially earlier, when VKontakte and other social networks were more active).

«One of the several ‘I’s» is the posts a person posts, the music they listen to, and the videos they watch.

“From the “interesting pages” tab, I can understand a lot about a person! His interests and subscriptions reveal 80% of him.”

“Perhaps I will become more open with a person and want to get closer if I realize that we have a lot in common or something hooked me in a good way. Or vice versa — I will become more careful in communication if something in groups, statements and audiovisual content of the page alerts me.

Research Department «Papers» also highlighted the remarks that relate to digital ethics. According to respondents, the manner of communication in social networks can determine further relationships in real life.

“If a person ignores messages or answers in monosyllables, the attitude can only get worse. And vice versa: if a lot of things can be discussed with a person online, then in life he becomes more interesting as an interlocutor.”

“If I see that a person is active in a social network, that is, he answers in a conversation, reposts posts, comments on them, but does not answer my message, then this person ceases to be included in the circle of trust.”

«If a person is online, but does not respond to my messages, this can cause a serious conflict.»

“The reason for minimizing live communication for me will be the obsessive stereotypical behavior of a person: for example, if he sends huge postcards to the wall in social networks, congratulates with poems on every holiday, including Orthodox holidays, since my environment is mostly aware that I am not a Christian, and it is important for me that this is taken into account in communication.

Work-related communication also often takes place in social networks. In this case, some formulate for themselves the principles of professional digital ethics.

“I pay attention to the observance of etiquette in working communication with customers: what time does a person write (3 a.m. on Saturday? I will answer in principle on Monday), how he formulates questions and tasks (I immediately understand from the text whether we can work with him ), is trying to send me an audio message (categorically I do not accept in work and always ask me to write the text).

“The level of literacy is very important. It is one thing to write to friends, ignoring the rules of the Russian language, and quite another when a colleague allows himself to speak in personal correspondence.

“If this is a correspondence for work, and a person writes “um”, “pff”, “hey”, it is more difficult to perceive him as an adequate employee when meeting.

Literacy is important for many in online communication — illiterate speech most often leaves an imprint on the impression of a person, and this is not only about unintentional mistakes, but also about those cases when a person, for example, deliberately skips punctuation marks.

«Stylistic, punctuation and spelling (unintentional) errors are very annoying — most likely, a person will be annoying.»

“The level of his literacy, the memes he uses in communication, the frequency of using capslock/ellipsis — all this affects perception. If in business correspondence a person allows himself to WRITE like this, it looks strange. If a person drops memes that are already outdated and not witty, you feel awkward.”

«If a person wrote messages illiterately, it does not change the communication process itself, but it is remembered.»

«Grammar errors can kill the impression.»

We’re completely wrong in apologizing. So how should it be?

Arianne Cohen

BBC Worklife

November 8, 2020

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Scholars apologize for being completely confused with the study of apologies. New discoveries in this area are extremely rare, because it is very difficult to properly organize such a study — about as difficult as determining whether a woodpecker has a headache.

Cindy Frantz, a psychologist at Oberlin College (Ohio, USA), is still trying. «I once tried to do a study in a lab where someone would do something wrong — something that I would like to apologize for,» she says.

«But the logistics turned out to be very difficult — for ethical reasons. You cannot force a person to do something terrible, requiring immediate and sincere repentance, in a laboratory.»

«Sorry for the bad example.» Dad hit a woman on the arm and then apologized

The creators of «South Park» mockingly apologized to the Chinese authorities

Justin Trudeau: «I don’t remember how many times I wore dark makeup»

For what and to whom the journalists had to apologize

Most scientists resorts to hypothetical questions («Imagine Sam just ran his car over your leg») or invokes memories that are notoriously biased and unreliable («Tell me how you apologized to your mother»). In addition, our cultural differences confuse things even more.

However, there is an oasis in the scorched wilderness of apology research. For about 20 years, Yosuke Otsubo, a psychologist at the University of Kobe in Japan, has studied how people apologize around the world, and late last year published the fifth of six papers in which he added essential instructions for those who want to learn how to apologize sincerely and effectively.

That’s the main thing.

When you ask for forgiveness, it is best to pay for your guilt with a very expensive gift, to sacrifice something dear to you.

For example, a corporation that has done wrong to its customers may give them expensive gift certificates as a token of remorse, or an individual may try to make amends by canceling an important trip (“I canceled all my plans for this weekend and spent Saturday with you»).

Of course, the idea of gifts for the sake of forgiveness is as old as the world. However, the original contribution of Yosuke Otsubo and the essence of his discovery is that the gift should not be aimed at enriching the recipient at all.

«My research has shown that the main thing that matters is the price for the abuser,» he says. In other words, the gift must hurt the person who gives it.

Otsubo’s work demonstrates that this is true for groups as well as individuals, for both public and private apologies, in countries as diverse as the US, South Korea, the Netherlands, Indonesia, Chile, Japan, and China.

He gives an example: popular Japanese singer Minami Minegishi apologized to her fans for her behavior that violated her contract (prohibition of relationships with young people) by shaving her head baldly and showing how dear her career and relationships with fans are. At the same time, she stressed that she would never again do anything that would harm this relationship.

For those of us who are used to beating around the bush and mumbling «well, I’m sorry, you know how it happened, I didn’t mean it at all . ..», this is a real conceptual shift: the purpose of an apology is not to say «I’m sorry» and explain your past behavior, but to show how much you value the relationship and the lesson learned.

At the same time, you must convincingly promise that bad behavior on your part will never happen again (and your gift cost you too much to resort to such apologies again).

Restoring self-respect

Aside from gifts, the rest of the rules for apologizing are pretty simple and straightforward, says Amy Ebesu Hubbard, dean of the Department of Communications at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (USA): accept responsibility for what you did, for the harm and suffering caused by your act, promise to behave well in the future, offer immediate remedial action, and demonstrate sincerity of remorse.

The words «I’m sorry» and «I apologize» must be heard, although not all of the listed components are necessary in case of minor transgressions.

Image copyright, Getty Images

Image caption,

Revisiting a blunder and analyzing it while apologizing is highly undesirable as it only reinforces the offended circumstance of what happened

Another recent study published in the American Marketing Association Journal of Marketing, an interesting point is added: start with «thank you for …», especially when it comes to not very serious cases.

«Instead of saying «sorry for the long wait,» say «thank you for your understanding» or «thank you for your patience» first, says study lead author Xiaoyang Deng, associate professor of marketing at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business ( United States), who conducted seven studies on the behavior of American and Chinese students and Amazon employees in situations involving missed appointments and poor service in restaurants and shopping.

«Showing how much you appreciate your customers who have been affected by your actions, you increase their self-esteem. Which, in turn, leads to increased satisfaction with the situation.»

In addition, she recommends not going back to the details of the blunder, as this will only reinforce it in the memory of offended people. Instead, just unconditionally admit your mistake.

As a rule of thumb, gratitude and apology work best in tandem, says Cindy Franz.

«Feeling highly valued by others is a key psychological need, and your gratitude will help repair the self-esteem damaged by your act,» she emphasizes.

«Gratitude restores self-respect, and apology shows how you intend to behave in the future.»

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Image caption,

Japanese apologies: eyes on the floor

These recommendations are supported by the work of Alison Wood Brooks, assistant professor of business management at Harvard Business School. She (along with a colleague) is currently immersed in a veritable treasure trove of apologies — the archives of parole hearings for crimes ranging from speeding to murder.

She has found that apologies with promises of good future behavior are more effective. But an apology that includes an explanation of why a violation or a crime was committed does not have such a result.

For example, members of the parole board do not like to be told, «I was driving drunk because I was very tired and wanted to leave quickly. I take full responsibility for this wrong decision.»

Here’s what they want to hear: «I plan to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings twice a week and go to the gym on Sundays.»

According to Brooks, her research suggests that explaining and making excuses for past wrongdoing should be avoided.

Choosing the right time is important. Still eagerly cited, Cindy Franz’s study bears the telling title «Better late than early»: don’t apologize too quickly, it won’t work, it notes.

«The purpose of an apology is to help the victim of your act feel heard and understood, and to convince the perpetrator that he will not do it again,» says Franz. speak out, they won’t give you anything.»

The sincerity of the apologetic

Apology experts are very interesting to talk to because they perceive everything that happens in the world as a series of apologies, although sometimes they cannot remember the details of the wrongs caused.

Image copyright, Getty Images

Image caption,

Yosuke Otsubo, a psychologist at Kobe University, believes that the best way to apologize is to pay for your guilt with a gift that will cost the giver dearly

All my interlocutors agree that public apologies that are not addressed specifically to the person who is offended are completely useless. And those — 9eight%.

A classic example is a politician caught cheating on his wife. Such a politician usually makes a public apology to his constituents, and only then, inside these apologies, along the way, asks for forgiveness from the deceived wife.

«It looks a little strange,» says Ebesu Hubbard, emphasizing that outsiders and those to whom an apology is addressed may perceive the level of sincerity of the apologizer quite differently.

«The most important thing is whether the one to whom the apology is made recognizes their sincerity.» What others think is irrelevant.

She praises Kentucky Gov. Andy Basher, who in late April called a man who registered for unemployment benefits under the name of famous rapper Tupac Shakur a scammer. It turned out, however, that this is a real name, and the Kentuckian, the full namesake of the late rapper, was offended.

«Then Basher did everything right when you want to apologize properly,» emphasizes Ebesu Hubbard.

First, he called Shakur to ask for forgiveness in person, then publicly stated that he had offended a person, fully admitted his guilt and — most importantly — praised the generosity of the real Tupac Shakur.

However, an example of a corporate apology is the actions of the KFC chain in 2018, says Edwin Battistella, author of «I’m sorry about it.» The language of public apology.»

Faced with the problem of delivering chicken to its restaurants, KFC published an apology to customers in newspapers, in which the letters on the familiar logo were swapped — «FCK».

In addition, on Twitter, the company wrote : «The chicken crossed the road, but did not enter our restaurant,» which provoked a flurry of humorous comments.0003

«They did a great job,» says Battistella. «They managed to play a trick on themselves.»

Read the original English version of this article at BBC Worklife.

Shadow Quotes | Famous people quotes

“Character is like a tree, but reputation is its shadow. We care about the shade, but we really have to think about the tree.”

— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 — 1865

About Trees

“You say you like the rain, but you walk under an umbrella. You say you love the sun, but you look for shade when it shines. You say you love the wind, but when it blows you close the window. That’s why I’m afraid when you say you love me.“

— Bob Marley Jamaican musician, guitarist, vocalist and composer 1945 — 1981

Option: You say you love the rain, but you walk under an umbrella. You say you love the sun, but you look for shade when it shines. You say you love the wind, but when it blows you close the window. That’s why I get scared when you say you love me.

About the sun

„A bad friend is like a shadow. When the sun is shining, you can’t run away from it; clouds will gather overhead — you will not find him.“

— Abay Kunanbaev Kazakh writer, thinker and storyteller 1845 — 1904

About the sun

“Whatever one may say, there is only one woman in a man’s life. All the rest are her shadows…”

— Coco Chanel French fashion designer 1883 — 1971

About life, About women

“What is friendship? The word, the illusion that enchants us, the shadow that follows happiness and disappears in the hours of misfortune!“

— Oliver Goldsmith English prose writer, poet and playwright 1728 — 1774

About friendship, about misfortune, about happiness

„When you stand with your back to the sun, you see only your own shadow. ”

“True virtue never looks back at its shadow – at glory.”

— Johann Wolfgang Goethe German poet 1749 — 1832

“A global food crisis is raging. True, in 2008-2010 he took refuge in the shadow of the global recession, but remained with us, did not evaporate anywhere. After all, the total need of sapiens is you and me!“

— Viktor Stepanovich Biryukov Russian businessman and politician 1962

in food increases every year.

rage

“Live today, now, in this moment. Tomorrow there will be no more today. Something new will come tomorrow. Maybe it will be worse, maybe better. But neither this wonderful sunset, nor these clouds floating across the sky, nor this patterned shadow from the leaves on the path under your feet, nor this particular smile of a person dear to you will ever be repeated.0003

— Oleg Roy 1965

About men, About a smile

«Without its own … liberation struggle, Ukraine cannot have either freedom or any shadow of democracy. »

— Stepan Andreyevich Bandera Nationalism 1909 — 1959

On Democracy, On Freedom, On Struggle

“Where the light is brighter, the shadows are thicker.”

— Johann Wolfgang Goethe German poet 1749 — 1832

The medal has two sides. Screaming about the truth, deep down — a liar. Shouting about beauty — ugly. Screaming about justice — mercenary.

About the world

“Our life is one wandering shadow, a miserable actor who boasts for an hour on the stage, and then disappears without a trace; a fairy tale told by a madman, full of sounds and fury and having no meaning. »

— William Shakespeare English playwright and poet 1564 — 1616

About life, About fairy tales, About fury

alley shadows.
In a mirror lake, inaccurate
Houses were washed away by the foam of days.
The stars of the dark surface trembled,
Road noise disappeared in the distance,
And very rarely
Cars dim lights ran through. “

— Victor Tafintsev 1977

Karpovka. Poetry of the Young No. 1, St. Petersburg, 2016

About the house, About the stars, About the night

“The number of women who seem beautiful in the shade of tents and under the cover of a veil is great. But lift the veil and you will see your mother’s mother.”

— Saadi Persian poet 1210 — 1291

About women, About mother

“Pay no attention to the faults of others. It pollutes the mind and increases the sin of the world. Therefore, try to see only the bright side of everything that happens to be experienced. Goodness and beauty are alive and real, while evil and ugliness are only shadows of what really is.”

— Sri Anandamayi Ma Hindu guru 1896 — 1982

About the world, About beauty, About evil, About time

“Of all the illusory aspirations of our world, the most common and widespread is concern for our good name and fame. In pursuit of this ghostly shadow, this empty sound, intangible and incorporeal, we sacrifice both wealth, and peace, and life, and health — real and essential goods . .. Of all the unreasonable human inclinations, this seems to be exactly the one from which even philosophers refuse last and with the greatest reluctance. Of all, she is the most ineradicable and stubborn.”

— Michel de Montaigne French writer and philosopher 1533 — 1592

About life, about health, about the world, about wealth

“The sun went out and the shadow disappeared, the cities fell asleep.
But we hang out in this ocean until the morning, we would have enough strength.”

— MiyaGi 1990

Source: Toastmaster

About strength, About the sun

.
Do not whisper your names to those who are waiting on the edge,
Do not open their pain with the desire for victory.
Who burns brightest of all — burns out from within,
Scattering on the shadows of piercing words.
Flying through life in an eternal search for happiness,
Take care of your hearts, don’t play with love.”

— Al Quation 1983

About love, About life, About pain, About happiness

“A woman is your shadow: when you follow no, she runs away from you; when you leave her, she runs after you. ”

— Alfred de Musset French poet, playwright and prose writer 1810 — 1857

About women

“Do not rely too much on anyone in this world, because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.”

— Ibn Taymiyyah Islamic theologian leads to delusion, lying, not blushing under a false shadow»

— Dubrovka Oleg

«In the summertime, under the shade of an acacia tree,
It’s nice to dream about dislocation.» — 1863

About time

“If the shadows of objects did not depend on the size of these latter, but had their own arbitrary growth, then, perhaps, soon there would not be a single bright place left on the entire globe.”

— Kozma Petrovich Prutkov literary mask of Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy and the Zhemchuzhnikov brothers 1803 — 1863

“If a tree offers you its shadow, its fruits and flowers, do you really want to tear it out of the ground in gratitude and take it with you?”

— Vasistha one of the seven divine sages, rishi, spiritual son of Brahma

About color, About trees, About flowers, About gratitude

«No matter how white a dove is, a black shadow still radiates from it. »

— Fernando

«Friendship is both a shadow that shelters us from the heat of the sun and protection from bad weather.»

— Ludwig van Beethoven German composer, developed symphonic music 1770 — 1827

Letter to J. Buell June 26, 1806

About friendship, O sun

«Beware: when you are in the blaze of glory, your enemies lie in wait for the advantage in the shadows.»

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec Polish poet, philosopher, satirist and aphorist of the 20th century 1909 — 1966

«Life has only then charm when it consists of the alternation of joys and sorrows, of the struggle between good and evil, of light and shadow, in a word, of diversity in unity.“

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Russian composer, conductor, teacher, musical public figure, music journalist 1840 — 1893

From a letter to Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck November 23/December 5, 1877
Option: Life has charm only when it consists of the alternation of joys and sorrows, of the struggle between good and evil, of light and shadow, in a word, of diversity in unity.

About life, About light, About evil, About struggle

„There is nothing original. Steal anything that inspires you or gives you imagination. Grab old movies, new movies, music, books, paintings, photographs, poetry, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, road signs, trees, clouds, water, light and shadows. For robbery, choose only what directly touches your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is not valuable; originality does not exist. You don’t even have to worry about covering up the theft — celebrate it if you succeeded. In any case, remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It doesn’t matter where you take it from, it matters where you take it.”

— Jim Jarmusch American film director and screenwriter 1953

About books, About music, About the soul, About light , founder of the Pythagorean school -585 — -495 BC

About men, About the sun

«The border between light and shadow is you!»09 — 1966

On the Light

“Although youth may be beautiful, at the same time it can be short and pass quickly; she is like a shadow: she can hide dangers behind her. »

— Kim Nam-joon (Rap Monster) 1994

About time

«The stars will remain when the shadow of our bodies and deeds will not remain on the earth.»

— Michael Afanasyevich Bulgakov Russian writer, author of The Master and Margarita 1891 — 1940

About the stars

«I am the shadow of my shadow»

— Eduard Sergeyevich Starkov Russian poet and rock musician 1969 — 1997

«I don’t need a friend who changes when I change, who nods when I nod — my shadow can handle all this better.»

— Plutarch ancient Greek philosopher, biographer, moralist 46 — 127

«Someone is resting in the shade today because someone planted a tree many years ago.»

— Warren Buffett American entrepreneur, the world’s largest and one of the most famous investors 1930

About trees

„Be last. Walk the world as if you don’t exist. Don’t be competent, don’t try to prove your worth — it’s not necessary. Stay useless and enjoy. You judge people by their usefulness. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t do anything useful. Do useful things, but remember that the real and greatest experience of life and ecstasy comes from doing the useless. It comes through poetry, painting, love, meditation. The greatest joy will fill you only if you are able to make something that cannot be reduced to a commodity. The reward is spiritual, internal, it is manifested by energy. So, if you feel useless, don’t worry. You can become a huge tree with a big crown. And people who have entered into useful activity… they need to rest in the shade sometimes.”

— Laozi ancient Chinese philosopher -604

About love, about life, about men, about the world

«Talents that are not used are like sundial in the shade.» , scientist, inventor, journalist, publisher, freemason 1706 — 1790

Do not hide your talents. They are given to you in order to use them. What is the use of a sundial in the shade?

“If, nevertheless, by some miracle, full agreement and unanimity is achieved with all possible members of society, then in time, for many reasons, society will inevitably encounter disagreements.
A bright mind always casts a shadow”

— Dubrovka Oleg

“The first law of history is not to allow lies under any circumstances; then — in no case be afraid of the truth; allow neither a shadow of passion nor a shadow of malice.“

— Mark Tullius Cicero ancient Roman philosopher and politician -106 — -43 BC

In the treatise «On the Orator» (De Oratore II).
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About the law, about history

“To make a career, one should dress in all gray, stay in the background and take no initiative.”

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord French politician and diplomat 1754 — 1838

«An ordinary person is a collection of routines, ideas and traditions. If you follow this path — you will know the routines, ideas, and traditions — your shadow. You do not know yourself.”

— Bruce Lee film actor, promoter and reformer of martial arts 1940 — 1973

About men, about ideas

“There is always a dark spot in our radiant sky, and this is our own shadow. ”

— Thomas Carlyle British writer, publicist, historian and philosopher 1795 — 1881

«Everything, including lies, serves the truth. Shadows do not extinguish the sun.“

— Franz Kafka Austrian writer, founder of modernism in literature 1883 — 1924

About truth, about lies, about the sun

good deeds, and virtue for them is a way of life, not a feat.
Oleg Roy. «Shadows of Destiny.»

— Oleg Roy 1965

Source: https://vk.com/public.realyroy

About life, about men, about fate Churchill British statesman and political figure, military man, journalist, writer 1874 — 1965

Controversial

«A bad friend is like a shadow: run on a sunny day — you won’t run away, on a cloudy day look — you won’t find it.»

— Abai Kunanbaev Kazakh writer, thinker and storyteller 1845 — 1904

“The tools of power are the shadow of a stick and the smell of a gingerbread.”

— Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin Soviet intelligence figure, lieutenant general, head of foreign intelligence of the USSR 1935 — 2012

About power

“I am Narcissus of Saronsky, lily of the valleys!
As a lily among thorns, my beloved is among maidens.
As an apple tree among forest trees, my beloved is among young men. I love to sit in her shade, and her fruits are sweet for my throat.“

— Solomon the third Jewish king, the legendary ruler of the united kingdom of Israel -1011 — -931 BC

„Our time is a moment. The house is shaking.
The whole universe turned upside down.
Tremble and drive away sinful thoughts.
The last days are coming on earth,
The firmament is crumbling. The firmament is crumbling.
Life falls apart. Death reigns.
You have ascended high, at enmity with fate,
but your fate stands behind you like a shadow.
With your soul you strive for the impossible, hurrying,
but only the soul knows the torments of death.“

— Abu al-Atahiya

About life, about death, about fate, about home

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„Love is a trap. When she appears before us, we see only her lights, but not her shadows. ”

— Paulo Coelho Brazilian writer and poet 1947

About love

“Before, girls sat in the shade and knitted until they became pregnant. And now the girls are on the Internet»

— Billy Novik Russian musician 1975

About girls, About the Internet

an idea that belongs to a person only as long as he keeps it to himself; but as soon as it is announced, it becomes public property, and the one who gets it can no longer separate himself from it. Its peculiarity also lies in the fact that everyone owns not some part of it, but owns it entirely. And the one who inherited my idea from me perceives it himself, without belittling me; not a shadow, but a reflection of light, he casts on me. Ideas should be freely transmitted from one to another throughout the globe for the moral and mutual instruction of man and the improvement of his condition, it seems to have been deliberately favorably conceived by nature when she made them spread like fire throughout space without reducing their density at any point. , and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical existence, and which cannot be limited or exclusive property. Thus, inventions, by their very nature, cannot be subject to ownership.”

— Thomas Jefferson Third US President, 1st US Secretary of State 1743 — 1826

Men, Ideas, Nature, Light

“It is not always good that is beautiful. And I say this for those painters who are so in love with the beauty of colors that with great regret they give them the weakest and almost imperceptible shadows, underestimating their relief. In this mistake, they are like those who use beautiful, but saying nothing words. »

— Leonardo da Vinci Italian artist, scientist, inventor, writer, one of the largest representatives of the art of the High Renaissance 1452 — 1519

About beauty, About mistakes

“Friendship in the abode has not yet given me this consolation,
I don’t know such a heart in which the truth would live!
It would be better to stand aside from a bunch of hypocritical friends,
These unnecessary acquaintances are enough to support me!
Friends do not then fuss that your share is close to them:
They demand their share and are looking for a sweet piece.
They seek your support when you are healthy and rich, —
And on your black day they run away and do not look straight in the eye.
If wealth decreases, love will immediately decrease,
If you don’t want to be despised, prepare dinars, dinars!
Your friends have done harm to you, caring for their own benefit, —
Expecting praise from them, dispel your strength for them.
You are merry while you are in power — the years pass easily,
But need will force anyone to become restless, gloomy!
In vain are you looking for reliable, mail-like friends:
No one can untie your tangled web!
Neither in the cold nor in the heat — you remember — friends are no good. They are
They do not tolerate the cold wind, they will be saved from the heat in the shade.
But a sage calls a friend who has been tested more than once,
Who will not leave a friend anywhere, neither in a bitter hour, nor in a joyful hour,
He will calm him down with support, and keep his secret,
And serve as a support for his friend’s sorrows and insults!
Who has girded himself forever with the cherished belt of friendship,
Who has not languished with the happiness of friends, has not cut him under the root.
He wishes life to the living, gives his strength to his friends,
He does not deceive his soul: what he feels, he says.
A friend is a pure mirror of a friend, they are mirrors to each other,
Mutually friends reflect hearts, and dreams, and deeds.
A wise man does not seek reciprocity of kindness and friendship from a fool:
Their thoughts will not meet anywhere, their hearts will never sing.
One is incomprehensible to the other, which means always and everywhere
One is unpleasant to the other — like fire and water!
Only a fool is good for a fool, but friendship will not go well:
They will begin to quarrel for no reason. — one on another weaves!
Two wise people, on the other hand, are quite suitable for friendship.
They will entrust wonderful secrets to each other in silence!
They will not offend each other in any way — therefore they are eternally friendly.
They do not need lies, foul language, stupidity, nonsense.
And remember well where enmity comes from.
From idle, stupid mockery, which is alien to friendship.
Hold your tongue, sometimes being impatient with evil,
Do not slip, do not make empty witticisms your trade!
You yourself hit your own skinny legs with an ax,
And when you expose your leg to your friends, you will expose your neck to your enemies.
Do you see with your inner eye — the face of the one does not shine,
Who lies or in vain scoffs and blasphemes his friend!
But the slanderer, the mockingbird, is not at all in the honor of people:
Even if he has not committed crimes, in my opinion, he is still a villain!
Even if you are a king, and mockery will dishonor you, laughing,
Even though you were high for a month, it will plunge you into mud in the square!
The soul aspires to perfection, to mockery — a sly tongue,
And everyone is accustomed to both, not being firm.
The mind is proud of knowledge, having accepted the high word,
When he proudly disdains vainglory, lies — he is right!
I will wither away, my soul dies, busy with idleness;
Her daily torture is mockery, lies, vanity. ..
The soul, enlivened by the truth, plays, breathing freely,
A person’s disposition becomes beautiful and sweet, like a soul!
Give up violence and take justice as your friend,
And those who are not afraid of unjust judgment are savages.
You need someone else’s prosperity, you don’t see consolation in anything else…
How long will you revel in violence with black wine.
What kind of good will you take from this fragile abode?
If you liked the silk shroud, the canvas one is not good for you.
You, if you are not ashamed of others, be ashamed of yourself:
Non-humans are shameless dogs, unable to look up!”

— Nasir Khosrov (Nosir Khisrow)

About love, about life, about men, about friendship

«trust no one in this life, because even a white rose has a black shadow»

— Namjoon98123

About life

«The world of vain desires is behind,
Old age is already crunching in my bones,
And staring at the back of my head
Fatigue swollen under my eyelids.
For half a century I have sinned with mistakes,
Now I have tightened up — both thoughts and desires,
The hot light of peaks is also familiar to me,
I also comprehended all the pain of misunderstanding.
Without tenderness, and I was sick in the night,
I also lost, not knowing gains.
And the first love in me is screaming,
And all subsequent shadows are screaming.“

— Ashot Sagratyan 1936 — 2015

About love, about pain, about old age, about the world

“For some reason, no one but me cares about the other side of things. Here, for example, is a shadow. I would like to understand in what relationship it is with what it rejects, and in general — what it is. «

— Salvador Dali Spanish artist 1904 — 1989

«If you want to find yourself,
Do not look in the mirror,
For what is in it is only a shadow,
Stranger…”

— Silenius

“The monastery bell ringer rang among the mountains,
And deer run at dusk to the river.
The breeze is so feminine in oblivion and laziness
A shivering pattern was already dancing on the water. And the caravans go along the path, and the expanse
is full of bells; shadows move.
I’m waiting for the dawn, forgetting about sadness and decay,
I hear a quiet conversation among the arable land at night. A rural landscape in a deep gorge,
Like a lazy eagle near a rock on his chest,
That stuck his claws into cool cracks. Aromas carry me — darkness behind.
Under the trees I wait with inspiration again
The spirit that will quietly appear the desire to marry.”

— Misak Metsarents 1886 — 1908

About mountains, About water

„The thinnest hair also casts a shadow.”

— Johann Wolfgang Goethe German poet 1749 — 1832

«Conversations in Prose», III

«From rise to fall, the distance is a glare.
Who became a shadow today, was great yesterday.
Changeable texture, capricious path,
They come to power without stopping. Adepts of redistribution will be merged over the hill,
Terror will revive on the ashes of revolutions.
Orange snot — bespectacled dreams
In anticipation of the civil war.»

— Konstantin Kinchev Soviet and Russian poet, composer, rock musician, leader of the Alisa group 1958

About war, about power

«Do not judge your greatness by its shadow at sunset.“

— Pythagoras ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician and mystic, founder of the Pythagorean school -585 — -495 BC.

Option: Do not consider yourself a great person by the size of your shadow at sunset.

About the sun

“We leave a mark on the life of every person whom fate confronts us with…
Oleg Roy. «Shadows of Fate.»

— Oleg Roy 1965

Source: https://vk.com/public.realyroy

in itself, so is glory: if virtue does not serve as its foundation, it can be neither true nor durable. »

— Francesco Petrarca Italian poet and writer 1304 — 1374

“Every shadow is ultimately also a child of light, and only he who knows light and dark, war and peace, rise and fall, only he really lived. ”

— Stefan Zweig Austrian writer 1881 — 1942

«Yesterday’s world. Memoirs of a European»

About war, about peace, about light there will be no shade to hide from the sun.”

— Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield English statesman, diplomat and writer 1694 — 1773

About trees, About the sun

“The Soviet army came and what was expected happened. Taking advantage of the resulting confusion, several Armenians — degenerates not fed by the milk of their nation — have already set to work. They — mostly shoemakers — as police agents, accompanied by armed Bulgarian militia, go from house to house and look for me. Forever despicable slaves who, for their dark purposes, have always used foreign forces to satisfy their impotent malice and to destroy their «enemies» among their compatriots! No less disgusting, however, are the nationalists, who are such only in name. As creatures possessing a bazaar morality, in their egoism they have sunk to the bestial level. Acquaintances, friends, relatives — no one will open the door to such, even if he, with the cross of the Nazarene on his back and in a wreath of thorns on his bloodied forehead, seeks refuge with them. They forgot, everyone forgot that only thanks to my efforts they did not suffer the fate of the Jews, and for four years they only got richer and richer. Those who only yesterday were looking for your gaze and greeting, today they are running from your name alone, even from your shadow. The Reds are waiting for me: a hundred times low is he who, under all circumstances, prefers life to death. Let the inevitable happen! Today I am connected with life only to the extent that I feel obliged to serve Armenia. Where are you, where are you, revering ruler and idolized people of Armenia, whose soul has always been able to ennoble itself in times of danger?! Colony, you once again made me feel the bitterness of shame. Shame on you!“

— Garegin Nzhdeh Armenian military and statesman 1886 — 1955

Excerpt from autobiography

Source: Garegin Nzhdeh (Short biography and chronicle of life). Author Rafael Ambartsumyan http://nashasreda.ru/garegin-nzhde/#_ftn6

About life, about death, about home, about soul

„…I never had money at the time when I thought about it. Money, like a shadow or beauty, runs after us only when we run from them. He who is too busy with his work cannot be embarrassed by the thought of money, even if he lacks it even for tomorrow.”

— Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol Russian prose writer, playwright, poet, critic, publicist 1809 — 1852

Letter to A. A. Ivanov January 9, 1845, Frankfurt.
From letters

About money, About time

“The most dangerous person is the one who is afraid of his own shadow.”

— Keanu Reeves Canadian actor, producer and musician 1964

About men

“The word is the shadow of the deed.” 900

— Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician and astronomer

«A woman’s life is a wide continent across which lies the shadow of a sword. One end of this sword is conventions, traditions and order, where «everything goes on as usual. » But there is another ending, and if you are reckless enough to cross the line and choose a life that is not amenable to convention, everything will be mixed up. Everything will go unpredictably.”

— Virginia Woolf British writer, literary critic 1882 — 1941

Life, Women

“I cast too much of a shadow and my son began to shrink. He blamed me for all the failures: if my father had not got all the glory, if my father had not left such big footprints in the sand. I thought: “Lord, he will drive himself into a coffin.”

— Sylvester Stallone American actor, director, screenwriter and producer 1946

„You are sad, my friend Anyuta;
Your gaze is tomen, the look is dull,
The white light disgusts you,
A minute seems like a century.
Your chest is like a light shadow
At dawn, it disappears,
Or, like on a hot summer day
White wax melts from the heat.
You are bored, and with you
Nobody dares to joke:
A little marshmallow will blow a scarf,
Or your light, slender camp
He will furtively kiss,
You run away from him.
You already look without a smile;
Everything is not according to your thoughts;
Everything is either boring or annoying,
Everything is wrong, and everything is not all right. <...>
So attire, pomp, fashion,
Everything is weak before you:
Being beautiful, like nature,
You are sweet by yourself.“

— Ivan Andreevich Krylov Russian writer, poet, fabulist 1769 — 1844

About a smile , About fashion, About kissing, About nature

„No matter how hard she tried, she could not find a shadow of meaning here, although all the words were perfectly clear to her.“

— Lewis Carroll English writer, mathematician, logician, philosopher and photographer 1832 — 1898

“There is something good in every day. And even if at first we do not notice it, each, absolutely every day of our life, is important and valuable in its own way.
Oleg Roy. «Shadows of Fate.»

— Oleg Roy 1965

Source: https://vk.com/public. realyroy

Ashot Nadanyan Armenian chess player 1972

About the Light

„When it was already getting hot, but our ladies had not yet come out for tea, I often went to the garden or garden to eat all those vegetables and fruits that were ripe. And this occupation gave me one of the main pleasures. You used to climb into an apple orchard, into the very middle of a tall, overgrown, dense raspberry. Overhead is a bright hot sky, all around is the pale green prickly green of raspberry bushes mixed with weeds. Dark green nettle with a thin flowering top stretches gracefully upwards; a sprawling burdock with unnaturally lilac spiky flowers grows roughly higher than raspberries and higher than the head, and in some places, together with nettles, it even reaches the spreading pale green branches of old apple trees, on which, at the top, pointing to the hot sun, glossy, like stones, round, still ripen. raw apples. Below, a young raspberry bush, almost dry, without leaves, twisted, reaches for the sun; green needle grass and young burdock, breaking through the last year’s leaf, moistened with dew, turn juicy green in the eternal shade, as if they do not know how the sun plays brightly on the leaves of the apple tree. 0003

— Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Russian writer and thinker 1828 — 1910

«Youth»

About pleasure, About grass, About the sun, About tea

«Politics is a shadow cast by business on society.»

— Noam Khomsky American linguist, political publicist and philosopher 1928

About business

“I saw George Foreman box with a shadow, and the shadow won.”

— Mohammed Ali American boxer 1942 — 2016

beautiful eyes are pure,
diamond teeth, and again, like a dream,
your beautiful eyes.
Lanites — roses with milk,
and again deep eyes,
movements — stiffness with fire,
oh, those beautiful eyes!
And thick night in the hair,
but eyes, eyes — depth!
You are a slender city, dear daughter,
your camp is like a poplar, like a string.
And a shadow falls femininely,
beautiful eyes burn.
Alas, only the heart is like flint,
but… beautiful eyes burn.“

— Hovhannes Shiraz Armenian poet 1914 — 1984

About the mountains, About the dream, About the daughter, About the night
And if you want to know yourself,
Look, don’t shield yourself with yourself. ”

— Mirza Shafi Vazekh Azerbaijani poet 1794 — 1852

About the world, Heart

we walk in the sun, and they immediately leave us as soon as we enter the shadow.”

— Christian Nestel Bowie 1820 — 1904

About the sun

«Shadow lives only in the light.» ?
A shadow hides a lot in the mask of that artificial smile…
Only the night, debunking a fairy tale,
Tells the whole truth that the day conceals…”

— Prince Alexander

About smile, About fairy tales, About night

„All objects visible to the eye and touched by the hands became empty, light and transparent — they became like bright shadows in the darkness of the night; for that great darkness that envelops the entire universe was not dispersed by the sun, the moon, or the stars, but covered the earth with a boundless black veil, like a mother, hugged her; it penetrated into all bodies, into iron and stone, and the particles of the body that had lost their connection became lonely; and it penetrated into the depths of the particles, and the particles of the particles became lonely; for that great emptiness that embraces the universe was not filled with the visible, neither the sun, nor the moon, nor the stars, but reigned boundlessly, penetrating everywhere, separating everything: body from body, particles from particles; trees spread their roots in the void and were themselves empty; in the void, threatening with a phantom fall, rose temples, palaces and houses, and were themselves empty; and in the void a man moved restlessly, and he himself was empty and light, like a shadow; for there was no time, and the beginning of each thing drew near to its end: the building was still being built, and the builders were still knocking with hammers, and already its ruins and emptiness were seen in the place of the ruins; as soon as a man was born, and funeral candles were lit over his head, and they were already extinguished, and already emptiness stood in the place of a man and funeral candles; and, embraced by emptiness and darkness, man hopelessly trembled before the horror of the infinite.
So spoke those who still had a desire to speak. But, probably, even more could have been said by those who did not want to speak and died in silence.”

— Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev Russian prose writer, playwright, publicist 1871 — 1919

About men, About home, About mother, About the sun

“Think before you speak. Human abuse disfigures a pure spirit. Constant reproaches and insults can turn the heart into a cold, insensitive stone, and the soul becomes a dark empty abyss, in which there is nothing but a black shadow, darkness always dwells there.“

— Victoria Keeneward 1995

Source: Quote from the writer and poet Victoria Keeneward (1995) from the philosophical story «Tea with the taste of death» Churchill British statesman and politician, military man, journalist, writer 1874 — 1965

«Turn your face to the sun — then you will not be able to see the shadow.»

— Helen Adams Keller American writer, teacher and public figure 1880 — 1968

About the sun

„Morning. Mom is home alone. Immersed in incoherent, dreary thoughts, she walks from room to room. Her shadow was outlined on the white door, vague in the scattered rays of the foggy sun. Mom stopped at the door and raised her hand in a wide, strange motion. The shadow on the door hesitated and whispered something familiar and sad. A strange joy overflowed in Yevgenia Stepanovna’s soul, and she moved both hands, standing in front of the door, smiling a wild smile and watching the flickering shadow. Praskovya’s steps were heard, and Yevgenia Stepanovna remembered that she was doing something ridiculous. Again, she is scared and sad. “We need to change the place,” she thinks. “

— Fedor Sologub Russian poet, writer, playwright, publicist, translator 1863 — 1927

Go somewhere far away, where there will be something new. «Run away, run!» And suddenly she remembered Volodya’s words: «And there will be a wall.» There is a wall everywhere. «Nowhere to run!» And in despair she breaks her pale, beautiful hands.
from the story “Shadows”, 1896
Quotes from stories and fairy tales

About a smile, About a house, About a soul, About the sun

“Listen, at night the body acquires complete freedom, which it lacks so much during the day. People, objects — everything falls into a dream. Look around — these walls are sleeping. The nightstand sleeps, the door sleeps. Window panes — and they fell asleep. And falling asleep, covered with invisible cracks. These cracks are so wide that climbing through them will not be difficult. You can walk through a wall without even disturbing it. Tell me, what do you think the night is? Night is harmony. At night, everything exists in peace and harmony, and during the day, remember how cruelly the light fights with the shadow. No-no. At night it’s different. After sunset, the night that was born in the house leaves its native walls and takes the street night under its arm, because both of them are one and the same, and there are no differences between them. The night air is teeming with secret conspirators—hate colluding with love, pain with joy. They hold tightly to each other, and it must be not without reason that in the darkness of the night the killer of a young woman feels special tenderness for his victim … «

— Yukio Mishima Japanese writer and playwright 1925 — 1970

«Her Highness Aoi» (1954)

About women, About men, About pain, About hatred dagger profile. Thanks to this drawing, her father invented the style of painting that adorns Greek vases. Love is the basis of all things.”

— Albert Camus French existentialist writer 1913 — 1960

About love, About daughter

“Taxi at speed cuts through the hot night air, the road is lonely, free. The shadows of weary trees froze on the pavement. I’m tempted to open the door, throw myself out of the back seat onto the running hot road. To do something crazy, inexplicable in order to fall out of here, where without you there’s nothing at all, without you there’s no need. ”

— Elchin Safarli Azerbaijani writer and journalist 1984

About speed

“Oh my world, you were mine a shadow, because I swaddled the sun with my hands.“

— Gubernachuk, Sergey Grigoryevich 1969 — 2017

Author about himself

About the world, About the sun

“Faith without a shadow of a doubt is like a human body, in which there are no antibodies. People who carelessly go through life, too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe this way and not otherwise, usually find themselves defenseless in the face of tragedy or the inquisitive questions of an intelligent skeptic. A person’s faith can be destroyed overnight if he has never had the patience to listen to his own doubts — the very ones that should be brushed aside only after much thought. «

— Tim Keller 1950

About life, About men, About faith, About patience which, besides a completely conditional personal influence on individuals and masses, I could restore; and the latter, seized with revolutionary ecstasy, were in a state of some kind of hysteria with an instinctive desire for destruction, which is laid in the foundation of the spiritual essence of every person. Once again, I was convinced how easy it is to master a hysterical crowd, how cheap their enthusiasm is, how pitiful the laurels of its leaders, and I did not betray myself and did not follow them. I am not made to be a demagogue — although I could easily become one — I am a soldier accustomed to receiving and giving orders without a hint of politics, and this is possible only in relation to an organized and mechanical mass. For ten days I have been occupied with politics and I feel a deep disgust for it, for my politics is the command of an authority that can command me. But it was not there these days, and I had to engage in politics and manage a disorganized hysterical crowd in order to bring it back to normal and suppress the instincts and desire for primitive anarchy. (11 March 1917)»

— Alexander Vasilievich Kolchak Russian military and political figure, naval commander, oceanographer 1874 — 1920

About men, about strength, about power

«The Lutherans say: «Why should we ask the prayers of the saints for ourselves? We ask God Himself,” and they refute themselves: for why do they ask the pastor to pray for themselves? We would pray without a pastor, if everyone has the same access to God and there is no need for consecrated prayer books for us. What blindness! — They say: praying to the saints, we are idolatry. Not true. We do not honor a single saint for God, we do not pray to a single saint as God, but only ask his prayers for ourselves; Is there even a shadow of idolatry here? Just as we ask living clergymen and prayer books for us before God to pray for us, so we also ask heavenly prayer books, who, out of their love for God, have great boldness before Him; moreover, very many of them here on earth were prayer books and intercessors before God for the world; there, in heaven, this activity of theirs only continues, has large dimensions and is especially strong, for it is not lifted up by heavy and inert flesh.”

— John of Kronstadt Priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, mitred archpriest, preacher, spiritual writer, church and public and … 1829 — 1908

All the saints, although they have finished their earthly career, but they are alive: God does not bear the dead, but the living: all to Him live the essence (Luke 20:38).

About God, About the world

“Nights are like people: they become interesting far from immediately. Around midnight they reach maturity, at two they come of age; from two to half past three is their finest hour, but already at half past three they begin to wane, and by four in the morning only a pale shadow remains of them. Their death is terrible… In fact, what could be more terrible than dawn, when the bottles are empty and the guests look like drowned people…”

— Aldous Huxley English writer 1894 — 1963

About death, About men, About the night

About the world

“To portray one good, bright, gratifying thing in human nature means to conceal the truth… It is impossible to depict light without shadows.”

— Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov Russian writer 1812 — 1891

About nature, About light

«The operation changed my life.» Juno star Elliot Page has had a sex change to become a man. What did he have to go through? life, hardships experienced and how his condition changed after the operation.

Lenta.ru gives the most vivid details from these stories, and also explains why the Hollywood star, who in the blink of an eye became the most famous trans person in the world, decided to tell fans in detail about such a personal and, as it turned out, extremely painful topic.

«No, you’re not a boy»

As a child, Elliot Page was sure he was a boy. “One hundred percent. I knew I was a boy from the very beginning. I wrote love letters to non-existent people and signed myself Jason. I could not digest the fact that they told me: no, you are not a boy, and when you grow up, you will not be either, ”the actor shared in an interview with Vanity Fair.

In an interview with TV presenter Oprah Winfrey, Page admitted that he recalls all the moments of childhood when he managed to do something “boyish”, with incredible warmth — the artist calls this state “gender euphoria”: “I remember being at my house friend Tim, they put an inflatable pool in the backyard. I didn’t have a bathing suit and was allowed to put on a boy’s swimming trunks. And I was just incredibly happy with life. So happy! Just because seeing yourself in a bathing suit has always been uncomfortable to wear. So — yes, I will never forget this moment, and all those moments of my childhood when I managed to be who I am.

Over time, however, young Page became more and more gendered: if before adolescence, the fact that he spends more time in the company of boys was simply turned a blind eye, then during puberty it suddenly became a problem for others. Page describes this time as «a living hell»: «I was teased, I was constantly incredibly uncomfortable in my body, I did not feel connected to it.»

Page made his film debut in 1997, starring in the film and sequel series Pit Pony at the age of ten. Acting quickly became his passion, but for this job he had to make compromises. “Of course, I had to look a certain way,” he explained in an interview with Time magazine.

Every day I went to the set and put on women’s clothes, I was sick of it

A small project was followed by a series of others, and then the first big role in the film about the youth cult «Face to Face» in 2004, for filming in which, among other things, he had to shave his head. «Face to Face» was followed by the main role in the thriller about revenge on pedophiles «Lollipop», he even appeared in a minor role in the action movie «X-Men: The Last Stand», but world fame — completely, by the way, unexpectedly — came to the actor thanks to a small indie film Juno. For the role of a pregnant teenage girl who decided to give her child to a wealthy family instead of an abortion, 21-year-old Page was nominated for an Oscar. The actor, however, was not at all ready for world fame.

“The film suddenly became a big hit and I became quite famous. But I felt that I could hardly express the level of pain I felt. For example, after the Oscars, I couldn’t look at the red carpet photos (crying) . I understand that people can watch this and say: “God, this man is whining about the night at the Oscars…” Page confessed in a video interview with Oprah Winfrey.

I didn’t recognize myself. For a long time I couldn’t even look at my photos

The constant attention of the press and the public, coupled with the gender norms that Page had to conform to for the sake of his career, literally ate him from the inside: «At some moments I felt that I almost did not exist. »

The actor describes his state in the most stellar period as close to depression, while Page unconsciously drove away reflections on the roots of these negative experiences. “There were days when I did not want to leave the apartment, it was very difficult to communicate with people. It was even hard to read the script in a day. And you don’t understand why, you don’t understand how to express it. I see why it can be extremely incomprehensible to other people who have never heard this white noise, ”he admitted to Oprah.

And there was almost no time left for reflection: the success of «Juno» paved the way for Page to Hollywood, and the artist was bombarded with offers to star. He starred in Drew Barrymore’s sports film debut Roll On! and then appeared in Christopher Nolan’s star-packed Inception. The first big-budget blockbuster was a real test for Page, not so much during filming, but during press screenings and advertising campaigns.

“There were many premieres around the world, I wore dresses and heels to every event. I remember how we were at the premiere in Paris, just dealt with the press and went to the show … My assistant — who for me is part of the family, supported me very much — she was convinced that she was helping me out, doing the right things, contributing to the development of my career forcing me to wear dresses and heels. She said, «I have a surprise for you.» I had already chosen a dress for the event, and she showed me three new ones, and I exploded. It was like a scene from a movie. That night, after the premiere, at the after party, I just broke down. And this often happened to me, often in conjunction with panic attacks, ”Page shared.

«Why does this little beauty dress like a man?»

A few years later, Page starred in another blockbuster — X-Men: Days of Future Past. Shortly before the film was released, he made his first coming out: he spoke at a conference organized by the Campaign for Human Rights in support of LGBT youth and admitted from the stage that he likes girls. Page for a long time was afraid to tell the public about this, feeling that because of his career, coming out was impossible for him — he would just take it and destroy everything.

“Here I am, an actress representing, in a sense, an industry that sets unattainable standards for us. Not just for the young, for everyone. Standards of beauty, good life, success. Standards that influenced me too. You are given other people’s ideas, thoughts that you didn’t have before, they tell you how you should behave, how to dress and who to be. And I tried to fight, to be real, to follow my heart … but it can be very hard, ”Page said at the conference.

In his speech, the artist also admitted how much tabloid articles that discuss his appearance or personal life hurt him. He emphasized that these small and insignificant, but extremely toxic and painful moments can gradually destroy a person day by day: “I try not to read rumors about myself, but recently an article appeared on one site about me with a photo in which I am in sweatpants. I go to the gym. And the author wondered: “Why does this little beauty persistently continue to dress like a hefty man?” Because I like to feel comfortable.”

“Masculinity and femininity are surrounded by widespread stereotypes that determine how we should all act, dress, talk, but they do not benefit anyone. Anyone who challenges the so-called norms becomes the object of discussion. And the LGBT community knows this better than anyone, ”Page emphasized.

After coming out, the actor turned to LGBT activism, and was finally able to appear in public with his lover, artist Samantha Thomas: “I felt much better after that. I was extremely squeezed all my 20s, and here for the first time I was able to show my love in public, discuss partners on the set. But the discomfort in my body has not gone away.”

“You have to fuck her so that she realizes that she is a lesbian”

Years later, the artist stated that a very painful experience on the set preceded the voluntary confession of homosexuality. While working on X-Men: The Last Stand, director Brett Ratner allegedly encouraged another woman to have sex with Page. “You need to fuck her so that she finally understands that she is a lesbian,” Paige quoted the cinematographer in 2017. Ratner also announced the orientation of the actor to the entire film crew, despite the fact that Page, although he felt his craving for women, never expressed it. “It was violence. This man who chose me to star in the film started our work with a terrible statement. He announced my orientation without any concern about my condition, and I regard this action as homophobic, ”Page wrote on Facebook.

All this time the actor suspected that he was a trans man, but as soon as he approached this revelation, he immediately drove it away: “I remember reading the book Redefining Realness [by the trans woman Janet Mokk] and realized: I am a trans «.

But then I kind of pushed that thought away. I just wasn’t ready for it.

After the first coming out, Page began to appear on the red carpet and various social events exclusively in men’s suits, and also made such wardrobe a mandatory requirement for film roles. In 2017, he broke up with artist Thomas, and a year later he married dancer Emma Portner. The actor appeared in one of the main roles in the hit TV series The Umbrella Academy, and then the coronavirus pandemic came, which turned out to be fateful for Page.

“I have time to be alone with myself. It was, of course, a privilege — I did not work during the pandemic. I think distancing myself from the world for a short period helped me realize certain facets of myself that I had never allowed myself to do before. Perhaps, to some extent, he did not allow it on purpose, albeit unconsciously, ”he admitted to Oprah Winfrey.

“I’m afraid of a possible invasion of my life”

During the lockdown, Page decided to separate from his wife (they, according to him, maintain friendly relations). At the end of 2020, the actor published a post on Twitter in which he again came out, stating that his name was not Ellen, but Elliot Page.

“Hi friends, I want to tell you that I am transgender and my pronouns are he/they and my first name is Elliot. I am very fortunate that I am writing this, that I am here, that I have reached this point in my life. I feel incredibly grateful to the people who have supported me on this journey. I can’t express how wonderful it feels to love yourself enough to strive to be your true self. I am endlessly inspired by people from the trans community. Thank you for your courage, generosity and work to make the world more inclusive and empathetic. I will give you all the help I can and continue to fight for a more loving and equal society,” the post said.

I also ask for your patience. My joy is real but fragile. Even though I’m incredibly happy knowing how many privileges I have, I’m also scared. Scared of possible intrusion into my life, hatred, «jokes» against me, violence

Page’s coming out instantly made him the most famous trans person in the world. Within a day, his Instagram followers increased by half a million, and his name was trending on Twitter in dozens of countries. The artist received support from all sides: Netflix changed his name in the credits for The Umbrella Academy (as well as all other films and series with him) from Ellen to Elliot, the same thing subsequently happened on Wikipedia, IMDb and Kinopoisk. .

After the unexpected announcement, Page disappeared from social networks for several months, and then began to actively distribute interviews — the artist’s coming out fell on the aggressive anti-transgender policy that American conservatives began to pursue. Page decided to draw as much attention to this issue as possible, and therefore made his transition public. He gave interviews to Time and Vanity Fair magazines, talked via video link with Oprah Winfrey, talking about the intricacies of his transformations and experiences.

Photo: @elliotpage

In particular, the actor told reporters about the breast removal operation (“She completely changed my life”), and later shared a photo with a naked torso on Instagram.

Everything is very new to me. I’m just getting used to my body, even the haircut is unusual for me. I can look in the mirror and rejoice in what I see

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Comparing his current state with the past, Elliot in all interviews emphasizes a previously unknown unity with his own body. “The main difference now is that I now truly exist. I can be alone with myself without problems, be productive, be creative. In simple terms, I feel comfortable. I feel a huge difference in my condition, in the fact that I can exist. I am here and now even in communication with other people, I can be relaxed, and I am not tormented by anxiety, ”he explained in an interview with Vanity Fair.

But the most probably emotional confession came from the actor in an interview with Oprah: there are insignificant things, the toxicity and pain of which destroys a person a little every day, but equally small moments can, as it turned out, give an incredible craving for life:

What brought me the most joy? Most joy… When you get out of the shower with a towel around your waist, you look at yourself in the mirror and think: “Here I am.” And there is no panic, there are no these moments that I experienced earlier just from wearing a T-shirt … When you can touch your chest and feel comfortable in your own body, perhaps for the first time in your life .