Friendship Quotes

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

~ Charles Lamb

It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

~ Emilie Autumn

Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.

~ Stieg Larsson

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

I am always saying Glad to've met you to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

~ J.d. Salinger

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

~ Dean Koontz

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

~ Amos Bronson Alcott

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

~ George R.r. Martin

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that'swhy.

~ John Steinbeck

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

~ Sylvia Plath

When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.

~ Marilyn Monroe

True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)

~ L.m. Montgomery

Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person .

~ Marilyn Monroe

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

~ A.a. Milne

They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

~ John Green

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

~ Jim Henson

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

~ John Holmes

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

~ R.j. Palacio

No friendship is an accident.

~ O. Henry

I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.

~ Jim Butcher

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

~ E.b. White

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

~ Charles Dickens

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.

~ Ally Carter

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

~ Dale Carnegie

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

~ Richard Bach

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....

~ Nicole Richie

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

~ Maya Angelou

One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.

~ John O'donohue

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

~ Ray Bradbury

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone

~ Mario Puzo

I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children’s godparents, the people to whom I’ve been able to turn in times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough not to sue me when I’ve used their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.

~ J.k. Rowling

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

~ Walter Dean Myers

It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extremely attractive man, J, but I am not Bruce Lee.”“Who’s Bruce Lee?”“Who’s Bruce Lee?” Kenji asks, horrified. “Oh my God. We can’t even be friends anymore.”“Why? Was he a friend of yours?”“You know what,” he says, “just stop. Just—I can’t even talk to you right now.

~ Tahereh Mafi

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

~ George R.r. Martin

I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

~ Jim Morrison