Friendship Quotes

But sometimes there's a difference between being needed and being taken advantage of.

~ Lindsey Kelk

It is an undisputed truth of the modern age that there are now only two kinds of people in the world: people who call and people who text.

~ Lindsey Kelk

One that society can't forgive, but I can.

~ Dennis Lehane

Someone once said: We do not make friends, we recognize them. And you'll know who they are because they play according to the same rules that you do.

~ Ken Niimura

What Caul liked most about Tom was his kindness. Kindness was not valued back in Grimsby, where the older boys were encouraged to torment the younger ones, who would grow up to torment another batch of youngsters in their turn. “Good practice for life,” Uncle said. “Hard knocks, that’s all the world’s about!” But maybe Uncle had never met anyone like Tom, who was kind to other people and seemed to expect nothing more than kindness in return.

~ Philip Reeve

Before label yourself and before you decide that there is something irreparably wrong with your thoughts or emotions, ask yourself: “Do I have a caring, unconditionally loving best friend in myself?” If the answer is “No,” then you will not find the solution to your suffering until you address this serious, life-threatening absence of self-compassion. Self-love is not a dinner mint. Self-love matters. Self-love saves lives.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room: and i passed its door quickly, fearful lest the nurse who sat up all night should here me. I dreaded being discovered and sent back; for I must see Helen,- I must embrace her before she died,- I must give her one last kiss, exchange with her one last word.

~ Charlotte Brontë

It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria.

~ Adam Nevill

And although I appreciated their kindness more than they would ever know, it's a fact that friends last longer the less you use them.

~ Lisa Kleypas

Friendship is a strange idea, difficult to quantify and, at times, even more difficult to maintain. Clearly a friend is someone you enjoy spending time with. However, a friend is also someone you continue to support even during periods when they are considerably less pleasurable to be around. The loyalty of friendship often contains a kind of tautology or feedback loop: the longer you are friends the more loyal you become, and the more loyal you become the longer you remain friends.

~ Jacob Wren

Some people are just different, even in the same family.

~ Danielle Steel

If you are having private thoughts and ask an intimate friend to listen to them in privacy or on a date will that be considered too intimi-dating? And if the thoughts are proved to be untrue, but your friend still insists on believing in them anyway, would that be considered a cons-piracy?

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

You can't even communicate in English. Real life is not a series of levels.

~ Sophie Kinsella

She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.

~ Sophie Kinsella

A friendship forged in the fires of adversity is a strong as one that has weathered the test of time.

~ Lindsey Kelk

A POCKET-SIZED GIRLHe keeps me in his pocket for a rainy day; he swears I'm not an object as he yo-yo's me away.A friend is what we'll call it,but my friend, he does not know,each time it rains I love him— so to his pocket, I must go.He thinks he's being clever,but I am not a fool;his love ain't worth a penny,so to my heart I must be cruel.

~ Coco J. Ginger

MY MOONI'll always wonder what time it is there; if you're dreaming, or awake. My moon is your sun; my darkness, your light. I'm in the future, you'd jokingly say.And I know where you are, because I'm watching you from the past.

~ Coco J. Ginger

7amThey said that I’d forget you,and I knew it wasn’t true.But sometimes I wake up now,and my heart’s no longer blue.I press the Keurig button,dancing across the room—Sometimes it’s nearly seven,before I’ve thought of you.And though we sleep together,all night side by side,one day I’ll have my coffeewithout you in my mind.

~ Coco J. Ginger

I didn’t think saying good-bye would be so hard. And with everything that’s to come—We’ll face it together. To whatever end.

~ Sarah J. Maas

WORTHYIf you ever decide to feel— feel this:I love you. I always have. I always will.Not because you're charming, beautiful or lovable.But because I choose you.Everyday I wake up and I choose you— again, and again, and again.But if you cannot feel, and if you never feel this, then know:I do not love you. I never have. I never will.Because you're not worth my love.(Come back my love, I am drowning.)

~ Coco J. Ginger

A WISHSometimes I wish that he will liveand I will see him.But mostly I wish that he will die, and take my memories with him.

~ Coco J. Ginger

It is beautiful to capture the soul of another being, isn't it? i nod and add, particularly when it has been a special person. We are talking about friendship, that has its own tenets so we are not talking about romantic/love/sex capture of another soul but the true captivation of another's spirit, which happens between people of the same sex sometimes.

~ Ana Castillo

Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have felt such a kinship with the Labrador as he felt now.

~ Dean Koontz

He can't make me love him when he's going to leave me.

~ Jasmine Warga

I know my life's meaningful because- and here he stopped, and looked shy, and was silent for a moment before he continued- because I'm a good friend. i love my friends, and I care about them, and I think I make them happy.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

~ George Eliot

102. After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

~ Maggie Nelson

They sat in silence on the windowsill, their hands locked across the distance between them.

~ Cassandra Clare

You're not simple. You're complicated. You're difficult, challenging, beautiful, and you exhaust me. I love you, I do. You're my best friend, but I can't be with you. Not like that. Are you happy now?

~ Jessica Calla

Tell me why you don't do it??I can't... what you can't ... It's too far... why??(Sometimes you keep asking yourself why this friend don't stay out... he is going fast to home... but why and why??Why he don't want to stay with his best friend, why?So the school is important than friendship??Why?How?)...

~ Deyth Banger

We grow apart because we grow in different stages and not all of our stages align.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Being shameless in thinking, then talking, about male friendship because it is important. Make room for friendship in your life. Make a federal case out of it.

~ Stuart Miller

Our attitudes toward human relationships are those of supermarket shoppers: we want what is cheap and quick and easy, we want variety, and we want novelty. But friendship requires a whole other set of mind.

~ Stuart Miller

To realize the importance the imagination could have in friendship, to understand its immense power for bringing us together in a way.

~ Stuart Miller

Encouragement is a mark of true friendship.

~ Glenn C. Stewart

The deep love that is born of friendship can too easily become stagnant when life becomes busy.

~ Glenn C. Stewart

Catch your friends doing something good and tell them about it.

~ Glenn C. Stewart

The Friendship is a suicide, the question is Are you ready to suicide?.

~ Deyth Banger

Frequently, friendship is represented as something too steadily pleasant, or in certain of the masterpieces of the past -- Aristotle and Cicero, for example -- as pervaded by a constant mutual understanding and a gentle calm. Friendship is also an emotional relationship, with involvement that can get hot at times, like any other deep involvement with a person.

~ Stuart Miller

I wish I could run away,” Rudger told Jersey as they both rushed in and out of various patients’ rooms, darting around like little ants. “I can’t leave and be on my own though, not right now, anyway.”“Why?” asked Jersey, waving her flashlight in mid-air.Rudger froze for a second, a regretful haze emanating from his eyes. “It’d break her heart if I left.”“Ain’t that normal? For parents to have mixed feelings about their kids growin’ up?”“Not for me, it isn’t.”Jersey made a pitying face in his direction. “So, you wanna keep bein’ towed around with your mom, livin’ in a gross town like Danvers?”“Is there a choice?”“Yeah, there sure is. You can run away and try to be a whole person before it’s too late, or you can live with mommy dearest forever and turn into Norman Bates.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt