Friends Quotes

Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect - for our families and our friends, for each other - when the funny thing was, we didn't have to. In the end, we were better than that.

~ Brenna Yovanoff

I know you're just trying to be kind. But the world isn't always kind. So sometimes you have to know what you're up against, and match it.' He held up a hand to stop the words about to be spoken; I could see the vague shape of it hovering in the blackness. 'I know it's not right to fight fire with fire. But sometimes, it's all we've got. His voice grew soft, and, in the darkness, his hand found mine, squeezed. 'Don't put your fire out, Kaitlyn. Use it, or pass the torch.

~ Mackenzie Herbert

I didn't tell her, because I didn't think it would help, but all people are lost, to varying degrees. I suspected that it’s only when we love others—through purpose, friendship, romance, or any combination thereof—that we become found.

~ Penny Reid

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude — a feeling which increases with the years.

~ Albert Einstein

I cannot stress enough the perils of your friends marrying or becoming court inventors. One day you are all a society of outlaws, adventurous comrades and companions who will be pushing off somewhere or other when things become tiresome; you have all the world to choose from, just by looking at the map… And then, suddenly, they’re not interested any more. They want to keep warm. They’re afraid of rain. They start collecting big things that can’t fit in a rucksack. They talk only of small things. They don’t like to make sudden decisions and do something contrariwise. Formerly they hoisted sail; now they carpenter little shelves for porcelain mugs.

~ Tove Jansson

Anyone else would have probably stayed put---or at least looked deeply uncomfortable, but Frank seemed like he was taking this in stride, like helping to reunite friends was just a normal thing he did.

~ Morgan Matson

...anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

Hatred or disliking for someone is something that doesn't come easily but once it comes, it make sure not to leave your heart and mind and stay there either for ever or a long time.

~ Shivam Singh

Our enemies leave our bodies for the crows and the wolves. Our friends bury us in secret graves.

~ George R.r. Martin

It’s funny how even when you’ve lived with someone your whole life, they can still surprise you.

~ Shannon Wiersbitzky

True friends are always near, the Goddess said. Beneath the eyelids on a stormy night, around the bend in a wicked dream, hearkening to the future by the chimes of their companion’s call.

~ Mary-Jean Harris

When you are without friends, the next best thing is an enemy who knows you well.

~ Midnight Blue

One in three all friends are:Brothers in distress,equals facing rivals,free men - facing death!

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We spent days and weeks doing nothing, calling one another ten times a day to schedule our nothing-doing.

~ Tina Fey

The first time Enokizu met me, the first words he said were: You look like an ape.When someone is that outrageously rude, it's hard to be angry.

~ Natsuhiko Kyogoku

We started out as five people whose lives just happened to cross paths. By the end of the summer we were family

~ J.c. Lucas

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature

~ Jane Austen

Spiritual friends help us most when they make clear that their job is to point the way, not to lead the way. And the Way to which they should point is Jesus.

~ David G. Benner

'Didn't realize Matty was so scary,' Chris said. 'She's maybe five two and can't make it up a flight of stairs without huffing and puffing. But if I really pissed her off, she might poison my coffee.' 'Sounds like someone I'd like to meet.'

~ Kim Fielding

Stop tagging everyone into your life's profile. For all you don't know, some will neither comment nor commend you; some may not like or hike with you! Evil companies corrupt good morals... Watch who goes with you and why! ...live life soooo well!!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

once you stop communicating as much as you use to, your friendship would not last. people change and people make new friends.

~ Karina Celestine

You just...you don't take crap from anyone. But not in the fake, rebellious way that most kids do it, like they got something to prove. You're real, and people respect you a lot for that.

~ Christina Daley

That’s what friends are for,” Sheba

~ Ronald Frame

German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everything: I love my wife! I love all my friends! I love rock music! I love the rain! I love comic books! I love peanut butter! The word you use to describe your feelings for your wife should not be the same word you use to describe your feelings for peanut butter. In German, there are a dozen different words that describe varying degrees of liking something a lot. Germans almost never use the word love, unless they mean a deep romantic love. I have never told my parents I love them, because it would sound melodramatic, inappropriate, and almost incestuous. In German, you tell your mother that you hold her very dear, not that you are in love with her.

~ Oliver Markus

I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men -- although the sum total of men's learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination.

~ Girolamo Cardano

Over the years most of my peers had come to hate me—I never understood why. I guess I was just different and, like dogs, they could smell it. So I never had many friends.

~ Sol Luckman

To be a good writer, become a good listener.

~ Cynthia Briggs

The most and best of us depend on others, we have to live either among friends or among enemies.

~ Baltasar Gracián

Friends are like sugar. When you have them, you'll feel happiness. When you have too many of them, you will suffer.

~ Ade Santi

Friendship is not about ships—no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Teen addiction to social media is a new extension of typical human engagement. Their use of social media as their primary site of sociality is most often a byproduct of cultural dynamics that have nothing to do with technology, including parental restrictions and highly scheduled lives. Teens turn to, and are obsessed with whichever environment allows them to connect to friends. most teens aren't addicted to social media; if anything, they're addicted to each other.

~ Danah Boyd

Am I on your walk of shame? You did sleep with the right MacGregor, didn’t you?

~ Michelle M. Pillow

Hold me like you hold the hand of a little kid who needs you in loneliness, bite my fingers like you bite a giggling kid in front of her friends, and play with me like you play with a kid who only has a few days to live.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

On that piece of white paper, Sam wrote, Write about me sometime. And I typed back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. I just typed. I will.And I felt good that those were the first two words that I ever typed on my new old typewriter that Sam gave me. We just sat there quiet for a moment, and she smiled. And I moved to the typewriter again, and I wrote something. I love you too.

~ Stephen Chbosky

Friends and fire didn’t go well together.

~ Veronica Bane

One of the things that kept our marriage intact was community. Friends who spurred us on to finish strong together. And it’s friends who esteem marriage that will do this, not people who belittle it or question the value of it.

~ Ashleigh Slater

...we need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have only the semblance of fixity and are, in fact, as eternally fluid as the sea.

~ Marcel Proust

Don't confuse your mentor with your buddies. Unlike the latter, your mentor isn't contented with where you're in life right now...

~ Assegid Habtewold

It's an unfair world, Child. Be glad you have friends.

~ Terry Pratchett

It is so simple, yet so hard for some people to do. If you want someone out of your life then you and only “you” must tell him or her to leave. This can only be done by you. Otherwise, your silence shouts, “I am undecided.” When other people get involved it sends mixed signals. If only more people would be so bold, hearts would not linger so long.

~ Shannon L. Alder