Friendship Quotes

If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.

~ Muriel Barbery

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

~ Orson Scott Card

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. 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. And they were my heroes.

~ Jim Butcher

Never give up on someone. Sometimes the answers you are looking for are the same answers another person is looking for. Two people searching together are always better than one person alone.

~ Shannon L. Alder

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.

~ Thomas Jefferson

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

~ Jane Austen

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.

~ Anthony Horowitz

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible…

~ Rebecca Wells

He sighed. I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?No.

~ Patricia Briggs

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position, it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

~ E.m. Forster

If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do

~ Lindsey Kelk

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

~ Jaron Lanier

ESTRAGON: Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!VLADIMIR: Did I ever leave you?ESTRAGON: You let me go.

~ Samuel Beckett

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

~ Anne Carson

Here's the thing- I love you and I love her, but I swear to God I'll kick your ass if you hurt her.

~ Katie Mcgarry

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

~ Aesop

You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer

~ L. Frank Baum

Love is friendship set to music.

~ Jackson Pollock

That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

~ Beth Hoffman

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

~ Francis Bacon

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

~ Christopher Morley

Some people you meet and they're your friend for a day. Some you meet and you never really know at all. And then there are those who get caught inside your soul and stay there forever.

~ Melodie Ramone

My shadow serves as the friend I crave.

~ Anna Akhmatova

I won’t let you have it. I won’t give you this moment. I won’t let you fill up this valuable organ...I own it. I won’t do it. I can’t think, I won’t think about it.

~ Coco J. Ginger

I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.

~ David Gemmell

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.

~ Ed Cunningham

The thing is, that when you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don't worry, at first, about the friends you leave behind. But as you get older, it gets harder to build friendships. Too many defenses, too little opportunity. You get busy. And by the time you realize that you've lost the dearest best friend you've ever had, years have gone by and you're mature enough to be embarrassed by your attitude and, frankly, by your arrogance.

~ Kate Jacobs

Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends.

~ Mardy Grothe

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

~ Richard Russo

There are two kinds of friendship: the beneficial friendship and the erroneous friendship. The erroneous friendship balances on the principle of the closer we are, the more okay it is for me to say anything I want to you and for me to treat you any way that I want to, and for me to disrespect you and take advantage of you while a true friendship is rooted in this principle: the closer we are, the more respect I have for you, the better I will treat you, the higher I will regard you, the more good things I will wish for you. You will know someone is a true friend by basis of observing their actions towards you as the friendship grows deeper. A true friend will continue to hold you in higher and higher regard while the error of a friend will see your goodwill and newfound fondness as basis to do and say whatever he/she wants, that is disrespectful and non-beneficial to you.

~ C. Joybell C.

My friends call me by my name.You don't have any friends.I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong.

~ Shannon Hale

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. ...We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow.

~ Gail Caldwell

I feel a horror for exaggerated love or friendship. It's just too well demonstrated to me that when the moment comes that one asks something, or has need of something, the responce is not worth a biscuit.

~ Brian Thompson

The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.

~ Cameron Crowe

We both grew so used to each other, so comfortable with the naturalness and ease of our friendship, that we became sloppy about keeping our relationship a secret. It was not that we were physically demonstrative or obviously in love, more that it had become impossible for us to hide our close involvement. We had gradually acquired the unmistakable air of old-love: finishing each other's sentences and speaking to each other with an offhand, presuming intimacy that was eventually noticed.

~ Kate Kerrigan

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

~ Héloïse D'argenteuil

There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, without a word. No questions, no asking why, just quietly lay there with you, observing the stars, until you're ready to get back up on your feet again and walk the last bit home, softly holding your hand as a quiet way of saying “I'm here”.It was a beautiful night.

~ Charlotte Eriksson