Friendship Quotes

You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin – to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours – closer than you yourself keep it. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo. Anyway: there it is. We know most of what Gandalf has told you. We know a good deal about the ring. We are horribly afraid–but we are coming with you; or following you like hounds.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.

~ Denise Hildreth Jones

The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.

~ Stephen Richards

Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical, it is willing to negotiate awkward and uneven territories of contradiction and woundedness.

~ John O'donohue

Many people walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

~ Windhy Puspitadewi

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Isabelle was holding an umbrella. It was clear plastic, decorated with decals of colorful flowers. It was one of the girliest things Simon had ever seen, and he didn’t blame Alec for ducking out from under it and taking his chances with the rain.

~ Cassandra Clare

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

~ Immanuel Kant

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

~ Charlotte Brontë

My friends are everything without me but I am nothing without my friends.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

~ Charlotte Brontë

They called you the GlueThe Glue?Yeah. Probably because you're kind of the glue that holds us all together

~ James Dashner

And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'.

~ Sarah J. Maas

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.

~ L.m. Montgomery

…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're near someone, when you touch them on some level that is deeper than the uselessly structured formality of casual civilized interaction, there's a sense of satisfaction in it. Or at least, there is for me. It doesn't have to be someone particularly nice. You don't have to like them. You don't even have to want to work with them. You might even want to punch them in the nose. Sometimes just making that connection is its own experience, its own reward.

~ Jim Butcher

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

Care to join me, Goodfellow?”“Oh, ice-boy. A moonlight stroll with you? Do you even have to ask?

~ Julie Kagawa

It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a flash of recognition and the embers of kinship glow. There is an awakening between you, a sense of ancient knowing.

~ John O'donohue

...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

~ Terry Goodkind

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.Even longer,' Pooh answered.” Winnie-the-Pooh

~ A.a. Milne

A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

~ Robin Mckinley

Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are.

~ Soman Chainani

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

~ James Frey

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

~ C.s. Lewis

It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It isn't such a bad thing to always know that someone on the other side of the world cares about you.

~ Laura Fraser

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

~ Samuel Johnson

Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.Words you can’t have back, so they linger.

~ Coco J. Ginger

Here's what I think. We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that feeling- that intimacy- from a single someone else. We call if growing up. But really, when you take sex out of it, what we want is a companion. And we make that so damn hard to find.

~ David Levithan

I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.

~ Milan Kundera

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

~ Gregory David Roberts

It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets.

~ Kiera Cass

Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.

~ Jim Butcher

You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

~ J.k. Rowling

I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.

~ Louise Rennison

and it is hard to let go, to imagine alternatives, but you are bold with unknowing, you are ready to explore.

~ Terra Elan Mcvoy