Friendship Quotes

If you want to know what love really is, take a look around you. ...It's giving life that counts. Until you're ready for it, all the rest is just a big fraud. All the crazy haircuts in the world won't keep it turning. Life isn't a 'love in;' it's the dishes and the orthodontist and the shoe repairman and... ground round instead of roast beef. And I'll tell you something else: it isn't going to a bed with a man that proves you're in love with him; it's getting up in the morning and facing the drab, miserable, wonderful everyday world with him that counts.

~ Frank Beardsley

Give up your heart and you lose your wayTrusting another to feel that way.Give up your heart and you find yourself living for something in somebody else.Sometimes you wonder what happens to love.Sometimes the touch of a friend is enough.

~ Jackson Browne

You think me noble?” She rolled to her side facing him. “Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?

~ Jessica Fortunato

In every relationship one must sacrifice to show thy love. Are you willing to make sacrifices for someone you love?

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory.

~ Fidelis O. Mkparu

To have a positive influence on someone's life is a blessing.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Not long ago, having expressed some disagreements in print with an old comrade of long standing, I was sent a response that he had published in an obscure newspaper. This riposte referred to my opinions as ‘racist.’ I would obviously scorn to deny such an allegation on my own behalf. I would, rather, prefer to repudiate it on behalf of my former friend. He had known me for many years and cooperated with me on numerous projects, and I am quite confident that he would never have as a collaborator anyone he suspected of racial prejudice. But it does remind me, and not for the first time, that quarrels on the left have a tendency to become miniature treason trials, replete with all kinds of denunciation. There's a general tendency—not by any means confined to radicals but in some way specially associated with them—to believe that once the lowest motive for a dissenting position has been found, it must in some way be the real one.

~ Christopher Hitchens

So tell me i'm wrong, cursed me when i'm started being a douchebag and all. Then i'll let you know how much i love you, lads.

~ Ariel Seraphino

Somebody who is Christ's must love Christ, and when he loves Christ he is delivered from the Devil, from hell and from death.

~ Elder Porphyrios

I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They're just not around at the moment.

~ Cynthia Hand

No, he said, we are not alone. I have you, and you have me. And there is Arya and Nasuada and Orik, and many others besides who will help us along our way.

~ Christopher Paolini

I don’t care too much about talking, but I don’t like being alone.

~ Ida Løkås

He took her hand without question, without fear, and he never regretted it.

~ Jessica Fortunato

Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and you'll have the time of your life.

~ Taylor Swift

The drone in my ear, it’s like the tornado drill in elementary school, the hand-cranked siren that rang mercilessly, all of us hunched over on ourselves, facing the basement walls, heads tucked into our chests. Beth and me wedged tight, jeaned legs pressed against each other. The sounds of our own breathing. Before we all stopped believing a tornado, or anything, could touch us, ever

~ Megan Abbott

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.

~ J.k. Rowling

Forsake not the friendship of those who have been your staff in adversity, Forget not be benevolence of the blameless.

~ Thiruvalluvar

North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.

~ C.j. Langenhoven

A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird.

~ Idries Shah

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

~ Idries Shah

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

~ John Green

How do we deal with all the people we’ve been? What happens when we have to confront them?

~ Rachel Kapelke-Dale

I wanted her and only her.I wanted to be a part of her storm. I wanted to feel my pulse against hers.I wanted the bitter on her sweet tongue. I wanted the sadness in her sweet syrup eyes. I wanted the silence in her screaming mind and the enigma that is really quite simple- a complicated happiness. I wasn't willing to let go. I was falling completely, forever, into solid fucking love that was swimming through my veins. I wanted to be the breath in her mouth and the rhythm in her chest that would beat only for me.

~ Shey Stahl

I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as we jumped, but by the time we swam back up to the surface, we'd have let go. No matter how we tried, once we started swimming, we always let go. But after we bobbed to the surface, we'd climb out of the pool, clamber up the high-dive ladder, clasp hands, and do it again. We're swimming separately now. I get that. Maybe it's just what you have to do to keep above water. But who knows? Maybe one day, we'll climb out, grab hands, and jumo again.

~ Gayle Forman

I found myself suddenly jealous of the time when things were simple, when days centered on creek walks and tetherball, and your biggest worry was whether you'd have riding or sailing. There were no boys, there were no secrets or rumors, and there were no regrets. Not even fear of regret. There was just a best friend and endless hours to fill with Pixy Stix and laughing so hard you couldn't breathe.

~ Kathryn Williams

A true friend is not the one you share laughter with. But the one you share laughter and sorrow with.

~ Unarine Ramaru

During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother's keeper.

~ Napoleon Hill

Whenever it comes to love, Remember the part about having confidence.

~ Auliq Ice

I have a strict moral code. I don't share penises with friends.

~ Ann Everett

Any relationship (friend, romantic or business) that's one sided isn't one; it's a one way street headed in one direction... nowhere. Cultivation requires input from willing participants.

~ T.f. Hodge

. . . none of us are as sophisticated in these matters as you think. You know I always feel, with every new person, as if I am starting anew. These things are instinctive. What you need to learn is to lay aside your inhibitions, to go back to your childhood when you played marbles or whatever with boys and never thought anything of it.

~ Azar Nafisi

It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.

~ Anna Godbersen

We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts

~ C.s. Lewis

The entire partying lifestyle was superficial in my experience, and most of my friendships were as deep as a shot glass and as short-lived as a pack of cigarettes.

~ Kate Madison

But I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both

~ Sarah Kay

My brain is already scrambled enough.”“Cracked,” I said, not thinking.“Yeah.” Moses scowled.“Well, it’s working for you.” I turned and looked at my walls. “Cracks and all. In fact, if your brain wasn’t cracked, none of the brilliance could spill out. Do you realize that?

~ Amy Harmon

We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership.

~ Ann Patchett

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

~ Aberjhani

Wrinkles was her big gray cat. Sierra named him Wrinkles because when he was a little baby he had a wrinkly face. He slept in Sierra's room, but not always on the bed. Mommy said that was 'cause Wrinkles had an attitude. Most cats had attitudes, actually.

~ Karen Kingsbury