Friendship Quotes

...nothing cements a friendship like hating the same person.

~ Steven Strogatz

Old enemies must be friends when a greater evil looms.

~ Raymond E. Feist

Tragic to kill a friend in battle by mistake when there are so many enemies to go around.

~ Raymond E. Feist

Screw friendship. I need more enemies. At least they admit they don't like you.

~ Manasa Rao

You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.

~ Charles Mackay

Villains and plots and enemies are simple things to me. But friendships are complicated, and love is harder still. It has wounded me deeper than a sword ever could.

~ Jennifer A. Nielsen

I rub my hand down my face, frustrated. This girl in front of me tests my patience like hell. When she ran to me after her dad kicked her out, I thought she still had feelings for me. She needed a place to stay, and I needed her. I offered her a room, thinking if she was around me every day, she would remember she loves me. I was dead wrong. Somewhere along the way, we switched roles, I became the one who so desperately needed her and she became cold and closed off. She isn’t my savior; she’s my punishment.

~ Brittany Butler

Fiction is the poor persons travel agent.

~ L.douglas Muncy

Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden.

~ Brook Tesla

You sometimes heard about the marginally talented wives of powerful men publishing children's books or designing handbags or, most commonly, becoming photographers. There might even be a show of the wife's work in a well-known but slightly off gallery. Everyone would come see it, and they would treat the wife with unctuous respect. Her photographs of celebrities without makeup, and seascapes, and street people, would be enormous, as though size and great equipment could make up for whatever else was missing.

~ Meg Wolitzer

You're lucky I'm drawn to things that are sick and weird. Makes it so I can actually still like you.

~ Molly Ringle

The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone.

~ C.s. Lewis

when building a friendship bridge don't forget to construct a distruative path.

~ Peter Adejimi

I also knew Dell was a good boy with bad friends. I was one of them, and I worried about leading him astray. But in those early years he made me feel cleaner, somehow; like all the shit we’d gone through wasn’t so bad. Like I could deal with it, so long as he was by my side. It had always been the way – but still, I was sure Dell would disappear one day. I had nightmares about what I would do if they released him before me on good behaviour, if he should leave me behind in this fucked up limbo of our youth. Nightmares where if I didn’t hold on to him, those long legs would take him away somewhere better...

~ H. Alazhar

(...) I could talk fast -- that's to say, without hesitating, stammering -- most of the time -- but there were categories of words, sentiments, I could never say, they'd have stuck in my throat. The embarrassment of it even whispering-teasing to Legs for instance 'Yeah you're my heart too!' or 'I love you' or 'I would die for you', nobody ever talked that way, mostly there was just my mother and me and we hardly talked at all.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

Another teen friendship, another tiny mysterious universe.

~ Austin Grossman

In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.

~ Wilfred Thesiger

Anyone can have a friend, but the one that would walk in a storm to find you is all you will ever need.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of these new folks nowadays, that seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

With some people there is easy conversation and not enough time in one meal to get out everything you want to tell her--all the things you didn't know you'd been holding in until you're suddenly confessing to Facebook-stalking ex-boyfriends and how nerdy you are for coveting the iPad--and with others there is that subtle but heavy weight of constantly trying to think of what you might say next to avoid an uncomfortable silence.

~ Rachel Bertsche

The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.

~ Robert Charles Wilson

There’s nothing like a friendly handshake to establish social cooperation, but the bonobo handshake takes erotic politics to a whole new level.

~ Dr Susan Block

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

~ German Proverb

A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.

~ Samuel Johnson

Be a friend to thyself and others will be so too.

~ Thomas Fuller

Friendship admits of differences of character as love does that of sex.

~ Anonymous

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.

~ Mason Cooley

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

~ Joseph Conrad

There are formalities between the closest of friends.

~ Japanese Proverb

If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was 1.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Of my friends I am the only one I have left.

~ Terence

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

My God this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends my goddamn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

~ Warren G. Harding

There are three faithful friends: an old wife an old dog and ready money.

~ Benjamin Franklin

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

~ Alfred

It is not enough to succeed a friend must fail.

~ La Rochefoucauld

A friend in power is a friend lost.

~ Henry Adams

Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

~ Agnes Macphail