Friendship Quotes

We were a coven, we were a crowd. We were a forest, we were a three-headed dog.

~ Moïra Fowley-Doyle

Animals in our lives can be a blessing.

~ J. Wesley Porter

You showed me that even the smallest of people can have the loudest of words.” (Rachael Taylor, 2018).

~ Michael Rogers

The principle that first you try to solve your problems on your own and only turn to others as a last resort applies to friends. We have an obligation to show our friends that we are turning to them for a favor not because it happens to be convenient for us to do so but because of a compelling reason.

~ P.m. Forni

The only way to free yourself from all the anxiety you’re feeling about the difficult conversation you know you need to have is by having the difficult conversation. It’s time. It’s been time. You’ll survive it. Just be brave and start talking.

~ Scott Stabile

Becoming fast friends when you're that small is easy, because the only requirement is that the other person likes to play games.

~ Jackson Pearce

I make it a point not to talk about the past. But you're special.

~ Yuhta Nishio

But, is it more important to stay true to yourself, to what you believe in, or give it up for someone you care about?”Lisa gives me a warm smile and her hand finds mine on the table.“There is no right answer to that.” She squeezes my hand hard. “It depends on so many things. You are the one who has to choose, to find the balance between what you believe in and what you care about. It’s a game with high risk—you can lose someone you care about but still have your pride, or…you can lose yourself for someone you care about.” She gets up from her seat. “The real question is—is ‘care’ good enough to be lost for?

~ Anna B. Doe

Boy, did she love those idiots.

~ Emory R. Frie

What exactly does a friend do?

~ Kiersten White

Using someone else's kitchen feels a little like reading their diary. I'm so anxious.

~ Yuhta Nishio

We’re your friends. Our job is to tease you mercilessly about your foibles, rag you about your upright, honorable nature, and point out to you when you’re being a complete dolt.

~ Laura Lee Guhrke

We didn’t have to talk then, and that is real friendship. Never uncomfortable with silence, which, in its welcome form, is yet an extension of conversation.

~ Patti Smith

Don't worry, I won't abandon you. I promise.

~ Yuhta Nishio

It made me realize that Beatrice had changed, that she did not pull her wagon so much as she got taken for rides.

~ Jill Mccorkle

Somewhere between buying 25 friendship bands and passing by the shop with a smile looking at kids buying the bands, we grew up

~ Anamika Mishra

I loved you as a boy and fell in love with you as a man. You’re in here so deep that there is no you, no me. Only us.

~ Kelly Moran

A friend need not be kept either within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If one is fortunate, those paths will for a time join. But if the paths separate, it is comforting to know that a friend still graces the universe with his skills, and his viewpoint, and his presence. For if one is remembered by a friend, one is never truly gone.

~ Timothy Zahn

Far too long hath there been a slave and a tyrant concealed in a woman. On that account woman is not yet capable of friendship: she knoweth only love. In a woman's love there is injustice and blindness to all she doth not love. And even in woman's conscious love, there is always surprise and lightening and night , along with the light.

~ Friedrich Neitzsche

(...) Clay knew better. He and Gabriel had been friends for thirty-five years, and Gabe had been talking him into doing recklessly stupid shit for damn near all of them. He was a charismatic craftsman: every heart a furnace, every soul a blade.

~ Nicholas Eames

You can love something without loving everything about it. You don't have to feel embarrassed about not being proud. That applies to hockey, but it also applies to friends.

~ Fredrik Backman

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves— and who want to go where I want to go.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Love those who value you and call you out on your BS.

~ Jennifer Coletta

You never know. Somebody can seem cool and then you look in their music library and there's Katy Perry.

~ Kara Lee Corthron

Melly is the only woman friend I ever had,” she thought forlornly, “the only woman except Mother who really loved me. She’s like Mother, too. Everyone who knew her has clung to her skirts.

~ Margaret Mitchell

Believe that when I am at once a man's friend I am always so-nor is it so very hard to bring me to it. And though a man may enjoy himself in being my enemy, he cannot make me HIS for longer than I wish. Good afternoon. Lowell had a way of leaving a conversation with the other person needing more from him.

~ Matthew Pearl

A real friend sees past the trouble and into your heart

~ Deborah Wiles

But of course, the Count also wept for himself. For despite his friendships with Marina and Andrey and Emile, despite his love for Anna, despite Sofia - that extraordinary blessing that had struck him from the blue - when Mikhail Fyodorovich Mindich died, there went the last of those who had known him as a younger man.

~ Amor Towles

You're going to meet people in this world who are fine, quality people. They'll build your character, and you want to hang around with them. Then there are the ones who don't do right. They will tear you down. Be nice to them-never hurt anybody-but don't hang with them.

~ Ruthi Postow Birch

Sophie bristled. “About to die with your beloved prince and still thinking about me. My story will go on without you, Agatha. I don’t need you anymore or your pity, like one of your decrepit cats. I’m no longer your Good Deed.”“But I’m still yours,” said Agatha. “Because without your love, I’d never have become who I really am. So even if I die, I’ll always be your Good Deed, Sophie. And no Evil in the world will ever erase that.

~ Soman Chainani

All close friendships are marked with competition. Our earliest tests are against our siblings and playmates, and some of that rivalry endures amongst friends into adulthood. Like dogs play fighting, you learn not to bite hard.

~ Christopher Bollen

Tell me you'll never lie to me again, and I'll go with you.

~ Pat Shand

Friends can create our most cherished memories.

~ Fennel Hudson

If only I could spend all days surrounded by people brave enough to open their hearts for real.

~ Scott Stabile

You show true friends the ugly--and trust them enough to turn it into something beautiful.

~ Rachel Van Dyken

We pick our friends not only because they are kind and enjoyable company, but also, perhaps more importantly, because they understand us for who we think we are.

~ Alain De Botton

Look, this isn't about the ring or when I ever made a hamburger, which, for your information, was my senior year of college.Right, when you almost caught our kitchen on fire.And you dated one of the firefighters for six months. You're welcome. Back to my problem.

~ Rachel Hauck

You miss a lot of a person’s life when you don’t keep in touch. Maybe that’s the point.

~ Bryant A. Loney

If they're friends, then they've got your back . . . whether you're there or not. Friends won't forget about you.

~ Svetlana Chmakova

It doesn't count if it's from friends, right?

~ Svetlana Chmakova