Friendship Quotes

The talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life.

~ Gayle Forman

The girl. Was that who I was? I was the girl just like they were the boys. Was that how we were going to address each other for the entirety of this year? How family-feeling.

~ Natalie Bina

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him.

~ Michel De Montaigne

It's the person that calls you up because they're eating at ‘our favorite spot,’ and it made them think of you and miss being there with you. That's a friend, to me.

~ Crystal Woods

My dearest Mary,Both my words and my conduct at our last meeting were ungentlemanly - born of haste and high emotion, rather than friendship and good judgement - and yet I cannot find it within me to apologize. I am glad I kissed you; glad to have revelled in your scent, your taste, the touch of your hands; glad, even, to have quarrelled with you because during those moments of anger, I was in your presence.Mary, you are the most singular woman I know: intelligent, brave and honest, and I crave your friendship. I confess to only the haziest notion of what I ask, having never been friends with a woman before. My friendships are male and conventional; pleasant and without distinction. But a friendship with you would be a bright, new, rare thing - if you would do me the honour.I expect that what I ask is impossible. But it is sweet to dream, Mary, and thus I tender one last, insolent, unapologetic request: write to me only if you can say yes.Yours,James

~ Y.s. Lee

Well, honey, once you've been head-over-heels in love with somebody, you don't go back to being 'friends'. It doesn't work that way. - Megan's Dad

~ Lauren Baker

It was just a tiny moment. Not a kiss, not even real contact. But for all the things it wasn't, it meant so much.

~ Sarah Dessen

Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and greed, a shared higher thirst for an ideal above them. But who knows such love? who has experienced it? Its true name is friendship

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

And I just walked away. Again and again, I walked away as her world fell down around her. As they destroyed her. We destroyed her.

~ Chelsea Pitcher

People tend to want to live up to their friends’ high regard.

~ David Brooks

At times it's like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too.

~ Melina Marchetta

Many years later after the sell-outs, betrayals, and hatred which would tear us apart, when our brotherhood had been destroyed, I’d always look back and remember that night. That fucking wild night at the KeyClub, when the smoke stung my eyes but my world was full of nothing but blind hope. When life was not a mockery, but a very real fire which flamed through my veins like the most incredible drug... the night when Kelly-Lee Obann, drunk, high and barely 20 the time, looked out through his hair with a terrible nakedness and said to me; “We’re not gonna make it out of this alive. You know that, right?

~ H. Alazhar

Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.

~ Pete Townshend

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.

~ Robin Sloan

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

~ Walter Winchell

Friend. Before Mark, I’d known its definition. Now I knew its meaning.

~ Elizabeth Langston

If you have no friends, invent one!

~ Stephen Richards

In friendship, we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos.

~ Emery Lord

The roller coaster came to a stop and a good friend got off, but what a ride we'd taken together. It had been one hell of a trip.

~ Ed Catmull

Write me, so it delights me in such a way to torment me.

~ Plinio Il Giovane

The person who has never made an enemy will never make a friend.

~ Peter Tremayne

A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.

~ Alireza Salehi Nejad

She recalled her father saying to her, 'My dear Anna, do not forget that a friend who is not willing to risk his very friendship for a friend is perhaps not such a good friend as he thinks he is.

~ Judith Pella

Your true friend is the one who will never walk away in your time of need.Regardless of the situation, time or location, your true friend will stand by you

~ Ellen J. Barrier

A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.

~ Rachel Hamilton

Your boyfriend shouldn't be your only friend.

~ Bethany Jett

Friendship is a sacred thing and I do not extend the word lightly. I've had long-term romances in my life but few genuine friendships. I am exceedingly picky about who I let in my inner circle and because of that I have a few friends and many acquaintances.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know even if I never saw him again.

~ Cheryl Strayed

When you meet someone you want to know, be very careful on how you sit on the driving seat to examine that person because you may end up putting yourself on a serious examination. Sometimes people lose interest & walk away after a chat because of the type of questions & silly discussions you engage in. Sometimes your highest intelligence end up exposing your foolishness.

~ Uzoma Nnadi

To make a friend you must close one eye. And to keep a friend, you must close both eyes.

~ Victor Robert Lee

No man can see himself unless he borrows the eyes of a friend

~ Colin Higgins

Be the type of friend you would like to have.

~ Steve Maraboli

I looked at my friend. I don’t know what I had done to deserve her friendship but she was always there for me. She was there before my whole world came crashing down, she was there after, and she would be there ‘til they laid us both in the ground, side by side with matching tombstones that read best on one, and friends on the other—yeah it was morbid that we had this all planned out, but that was just us.

~ Amanda Stone

There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is sympathy - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will.

~ Timothy J. Keller

I've been thinking. You'd better be my bridesmaid, since you gave me the idea that led to this whole farce. It's a horrible job, I'm sure, so you deserve it. Plus, you're my friend. Will you do it?

~ Jayne Bauling

The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.

~ Hiroko Sakai

Real Friends' are someone who are right next to you when you got in emergency, not in only parties.

~ Hiroko Sakai

Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?

~ Charles Lamb

It’s the enemy of your enemy who is your friend Sophie, not the friend of your friend.

~ Somi Ekhasomhi

With some dogs you share a boil in the bag breakfast and maybe a blanket on a cold desert floor. Some you wouldn't leave in charge of your Grandma unless you wanted to find out just how fast the old girl could run. But, if you're very, very lucky there will be the one dog you would lay down your life for - and for me that dog is Buster.

~ Will Barrow