On Friendship Quotes

“Friendship is not something that you seek but something that finds you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“Solitude is not the only possible parent of boredom: we sometimes find ourselves bored to death while we are with someone, a few people, or even many people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“Some people hate being single so much that they are often the boyfriend or girlfriend of someone who they do not love.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“A friend is way less likely than a boyfriend or girlfriend to make us pretend to be someone we are not; or that our family is a good family, or way better, or way less crazy or dysfunctional than it actually is.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“You can be a friend to someone who is to you not a friend.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“In innumerable cases, the woman fell in love, not with the man, but with the lifestyle that came with being his girlfriend, wife, or mistress.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“Many a man once started a friendship with a woman just to get into her life, with the sole intention of making her his girlfriend as soon as he could.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“Sometimes a woman offers a man friendship out of pity, as a consolation, or as a consolation prize, for his failure to make her want him, or at least agree to be in a relationship with him.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“I, unlike the vast majority of people, do not find solitude intolerable. As a matter of fact, I enjoy solitude, so much so that there is no dead or living person whose company I preferred, would have preferred, or prefer over my own.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“To millions of children, a condom is nothing but a balloon.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“In many cases, though days are dark, friends are still many; it is just that many of them are also having dark days.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“It is not easy to keep a friend convinced that you still deserve to be kept as a friend, especially if you hate lying.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“Some confidants have wings and a beak, or four legs and a tail.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“Our friends are often secretly made happy, or less unhappy, by their finding out about our problems, because that reminds them that they are not the only ones who have problems; that some people’s problems are way bigger than theirs; or that some people, unlike them, have real problems.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“In a way, trying to say exactly what something is, is like trying to take a picture of the entire universe—and that has nothing to do with the non-existence of a capable camera.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“Our friends are friends with us not for us but for themselves.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“In many if not most cases we truly believe that what is merely a means is really an end.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“We sometimes use a friend to prevent or stop ourselves from feeling abnormal (or crazy) for liking or enjoying something (or some of the things) that we like or enjoy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“Other people’s pockets are our money’s dream home.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“We often want to hear, not what is true, but what we want to hear.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“For our success to happen, millions of billions of things, the vast majority of which were neither in our control nor in our awareness, needed not only to happen but also to happen how, when, where, and—in some cases—for how long, they have happened; and to happen to the things and the people to whom they have happened.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“Another common use of a friend is as a bag of skin that converts, into usually meaningful sounds, the vibrations we make when we talk about our problems.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“We, when invited to hang out with and by our friend, are often a Plan B, a Plan C, or even a Plan P.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“Among other things, friendship is a mutual fight against solitude and boredom.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“To a particular person, a particular personality, mind, lifestyle, voice, gait, laugh, salary, penis, or vagina, cannot be interesting for a very long time.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“An orgasm … is by far the most pleasurable experience. To those who once experienced an orgasm and have never meditated properly or long enough, that is.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“We almost always start a conversation, or sustain one, merely to cover the silence with, or merely to keep the silence covered by, the sounds of our words, which seldom form important statements or questions.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“When you are with any of the vast majority of sane people who can talk, silence is usually as infrequent—and definitely as brief—as the sound of a fart.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay