Friends Quotes

Maybe I just didn’t want it to be Benny because he really loves her, and if I was wrong about that, it’d be depressing. Who wants to be depressed?”“Poets,” Eve decided. “You have to think they must.”“Okay, other than poets.

~ J.d. Robb

adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to myself.

~ Richard Paul Evans

One of the greatest gifts to give our friends and others is a prayer.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

I realized at that moment - observing his form move further away without once turning back - that I’d already begun to rebuild the imaginary wall between us. I was shielding my heart with stone cold feelings again, the only way I knew to protect it. I still planned to try my hand at prayer. If God would grant me this one request, if I could keep my only friend, I would give anything in return, even the treasured books trapped beneath my arm. I’d tasted enough of a dismal life to know that a real, true friend was of greater worth than the collection of every imagined fairytale in the world.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Elevate yourself away from anything or anyone who stunts your growth by distraction, you will never get round to watering your own plant if you wait for there approval to do so. Before you know it there garden will be full and yours would never have been started.

~ Keysha Jade

You have to make an enemy a friend to conquer his or her evil intentions.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous. (pg. 18)

~ John Green

If I have to question a friendship, then it wasn't a friendship to begin with.

~ Peprah Boasiako

When life deals you a rough hand, it’s not about how strong you are but how many people out there believe in you, stand by you: your FRIENDS.

~ Aman Jassal

All friends have secrets. We're like three-dimensional shapes on paper, we all have hidden sides. And there's some secrets we don't even reveal to ourselves.

~ Nenia Campbell

Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I have more or less constantly been on my way, on the road, always leaving and never arriving, which also means leaving people. I’ve loved and lost and I have regrets and I miss and no matter how many times you leave, start over, achieve success or travel places it’s other people that matter. People, friends, family, lovers, strangers – they will forever stay with you, even if only through memory. I’ve grown to appreciate people to the deepest core and I’m trying to learn how to tell people what I want to tell them when I have the chance, before it’s too late. …

~ Charlotte Eriksson

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

~ John Irving

I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place whereeverything I’ve ever known is coming apart. I know some things—I know that I’m not alone, that I have friends, that I’m in love. I know where I came from. I know that I don’t want to die, and for me, that’s something—more than I could have said a few weeks ago.

~ Veronica Roth

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

~ Confucius

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

~ Aeschylus

You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.

~ Daniel Clowes

And Rob knew then that he had picked the right person to tell.

~ Kate Dicamillo

Give and take.Oil and water. Yes, it is that simple!

~ Melody Carstairs

Take not a minute for granted, because that minute can never be replaced.

~ Melody Carstairs

...a friend is someone to whom you can tell all your secrets, someone whom you can trust without reservation, a person who is not overawed when you are at your best, and is not turned away when you are at your worst.

~ Steven J. Carroll

A real friend is one with whom you can be silent.

~ Anonymous

Even though everybody hates you, you'll always have a friend who protects you and wishes to uplift you from pain, misery and suffering and that will always turn and remain the hardest blow to those who hate you.

~ Auliq Ice

An enemy of yours is an enemy of mine; an enemy of mine is an enemy of yours; if an enemy of mine is not an enemy of yours, then you're an enemy of mine.

~ John Yang Aka Private83

You are far too amazing to be someone's backup. You're someone's first choice.

~ Chris Burkmenn

You cannot trust a person who only has new friends.

~ J.a. Perez

You have so much love in you. Trust your firends and family. They're all you have, but they're precious, the most important part of your life.

~ Deb Baker

I am very happy with all my friends and co-workers, because if they don’t remember me in their happy times or in their success. However, they never forget me if they are in a problem or need my help…

~ Nutan Bajracharya

It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

~ Rachel Caine

Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are going where you are going. Get it simply: wide courtesy, narrow intimacy!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change

~ 50 Cent

If the years have taught me one thing it's that those who care are always scarce. Those who genuinely care; not the acquaintances, false friends or those with similar aspirations. The few who seek your company, the souls who would plainly step off the world for you. Once you resolve to ignore them, only regret will follow.

~ Darrell Drake

I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria.But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense.All friendships are negotiations of power.

~ Holly Black

I feel like our whole friendship was a lie. She's probably the only person I've ever really opened up to, and the whole time she was hiding stuff from me. I just don't feel like I can trust somebody like that.

~ Brendan Halpin

My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.

~ Steven Herrick

I loved everything to anything to everyone who surrounded him. He was perfect. A delusion with a sweet melancholy taste. He was crazy, but he was my crazy and inside, everything felt right.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Be aware of people who are standing in your circle who don't smile when you win.

~ Chris Marvel

In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Enemies and easy to get and even easier to keep. But friends are hard to get and even harder to keep.

~ Sneha Abraham

Sometimes I think of rebuilding my friendship with old friends. But at the same time, there's a reason why we fell off. Shit happens, but life's good.

~ Manasa Rao