Friendship Quotes

They were more than partners, more than brothers; they were very nearly the same person.

~ A.c. Williams

A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.

~ Michael Monroe

Unfettered is an anthology filled with magic, wonderment, and hope. It is more than it's combined stories, though. It is the power of friendship. Of giving. Of a science-fiction and fantasy community that protects its own. Of humanity escaping the ugliness that often plagues it to instead create a testament to the goodness found in every heart.

~ Shawn Speakman

After the fierce midsummer all ablaze Has burned itself to ashes, and expires In the intensity of its own fires,There come the mellow, mild, St. Martin daysCrowned with the calm of peace, but sad with haze. So after Love has led us, till he tires Of his own throes, and torments, and desires,Comes large-eyed friendship: with a restful gaze,He beckons us to follow, and across Cool verdant vales we wander free from care. Is it a touch of frost lies in the air?Why are we haunted with a sense of loss?We do not wish the pain back, or the heat;And yet, and yet, these days are incomplete

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I didn't know who tobelievebutone thing I doknow: when a man islivingmany claim relationshipsthat are hardlysoand after he dies, well,then it's everybody'sparty.

~ Charles Bukowski

I don’t want us to be ashamed anymore (we all were crying by this point) of being pregnant or gay or poor or having a crackhead dad! I want us to be fucking proud of ourselves. (...) So we have to be proud and always remember who we are and when we make it to college, who we were.

~ Isabel Quintero

A series of books, dilapidated and faded, sit bundled together. Most of the bindings are separating from the yellowed pages, but each is at home in its battered state. Their wrinkled pages and discolored skin tell not of old age, but of a good life. These books, unlike so many others, were not just read, but revisited, loved, and experienced.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

Sometimes one doesn't have to be part of the experience to realize and learn from the experience.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Its always hard to find out that a person you once considered a great friend has completely turned their back on you. Life is full of surprises, some good and some bad. From my experience, bumping into bad ones never gets easier, but you learn to expect it, learn from it, and move on. Thats the only thing we can do... is move on.

~ Hilda Yacoubian

Approaching the Start of Civil ExamsPerhaps I was once a young Chinese scholarapproaching the start of civil exams,my mind grown weary and sad from seclusionwith books on syntax and poetic style.All that I knew were the mist-covered mountainsand sweet white blossoms of mountain applesthat grew in the valleys of my province.But I had been gone over six yearsbusy with studies in the Heavenly Cityempty and thin despite my work.I showed my verses to an older poetwho told me a truth I longed to believe:all knowledge is futile and barrenwhich does not open the love of your friends.

~ Jim Chapson

He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two.

~ James Salter

I never said I was sad, I’m just pessimistic,” said Alecto. “Expect the worst, that way you’ll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

~ Anne Brontë

There is no greater despair, than to tread with care upon ice that is already broken

~ Johnathan Jena

The faery lady looked at Hettie curiously from beneath her wig. You know... she said, very softly. All I wanted was that you would be my friend. That isn't very much to ask, is it? Doesn't everyone in the Smoke Lands have a friend? Doesn't everyone have someone? She smiled pitifully and looked away. I wanted a little person who would be mine, because no one else is. Life is so lonely when one lives as long as we do, in such a horrible, horrible house. But you never wanted to be my friend. You never, ever did.

~ Stefan Bachmann

I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words. Just your presence.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us?

~ Ariana Carruth

Bad friends are those who make you cry.Good friends are those who understand why you're crying.Best friends are those who do everything to stop you from crying.

~ Asi Wudu

Her Brooklyn accent only comes out when she's angry. This is the best part....I pick at my pancakes while she tells me, simply, It's ok to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love. I can't stay just to avoid contradicting myself. I don't have to watch him cry.

~ Lena Dunham

Humility is the only thing that can restore a relationship, when respect has been lost.

~ Shannon L. Alder

He wanted to break me, the me I'd made, the me I'd needed to make, my need, mine, my whole life since I could remember. I didn't want to hear him that night. When I was ready to change I'd change. When life opens up before you, when you don't really know death ... it's easy to promise yourself change. Keeping the lines hard, the parts of me separate, was what I knew, how I lived.

~ Adam Berlin

Shared history was the coin of the realm.

~ Chris Matthews

Rage colors her every movement. Rage that has nothing to do with her so-called bodyguards and everything to do with me and her and the confusion rolling around inside the both of us. This should be interesting

~ Sabaa Tahir

I spoke a word in anger To one who was my friend, Like a knife it cut him deeply, A wound that was hard to mend. That word, so thoughtlessly uttered, I would we could both forget, But its echo lives and memory gives The recollection yet. How many hearts are broken, How many friends are lost By some unkind word spoken Before we count the cost! But a word or deed of kindness Will repay a hundredfold. For it echoes again in the hearts of men And carries a joy untold.

~ C.a. Lufburrow

You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about something that was more important to me than anything else. I bet there are people who go through a whole life and never experience that.

~ Lois Lowry

Love is not what others feel about you its what feeling you share with others.

~ Swavin Joysury

He rolled his eyes and took my hand. His hand was hard and calloused, tough with muscle and old scars.The night settled around us like a blanket. I could hear the water lapping against the dock. We were totally alone.“You’re . . . ,” he began, and I waited, heart throbbing in my throat. “Such a pain,” he concluded.“What?” I asked, just as his head swooped in and his mouth touched mine. I tried to speak, but one ofFang’s hands held the back of my head, and he kept his lips pressed against me, kissing me softly but with a Fanglike determination.Oh, jeez, I thought distractedly. Jeez, this is Fang, and me, and . . . Fang tilted his head to kiss me more deeply, and I felt totally lightheaded. Then I remembered to breathe through my nose, and the fog cleared a tiny bit. Somehow we were pressed together, Fang’s arms around me now, sliding under mywings, his hands flat against my back.It was incredible. I loved it. I loved him.It was a total disaster.Gasping, I pulled back. “I, uh—,” I began oh so coherently, and then I jumped up, almost knocking himover, and raced down the dock. I took off, flying fast, like a rocket.

~ James Patterson

When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.

~ David D. Burns

the man's best friend is his friend's dog.

~ Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela

I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

After your friendship with God, your wife's friendship is the greatest treasure you possess.

~ Jim George

I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.

~ Morgan Matson

Don't be an escort to people on their way to success, for it is equally as if you're a sign post, leading the way, and rusting at the end.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Why do I spend every moment with you thinking about why I did not go in the opposite direction when I had the chance?

~ Isabella Carter

But your own tears blind you to mine.I am not neglectful of friendship,but we two squat in the same coracle,we are both swamped by the same stormy waters,I have not the gifts of a happy man. . . Often enough.

~ Catullus

A friend is like a rope, you trust it until it snaps.

~ Auliq Ice

We hated each other so well and loved each other so badly...

~ Seanan Mcguire

Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are doing goes against everything you believe in? Will it be principles over friendship, morality over love?

~ Donna Lynn Hope