36 Friendship Quotes

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“We have formed a sick little friendship over the past year”

— Dee Remy

“In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”

— Ann Landers

“Sometimes the worst tidings come as an absence. A friend who does not visit at the usual time, and who quickly thereafter withdraws from the friendship. An awaited letter that does not arrive, followed at some distance by news of an untimely death.”

— Alma Katsu

“Friendship includes talking others off their ledges, and letting them talk you off yours. - Jenni Davenport”

— Gary Chapman

“Friendship makes you feel as one with your friend.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“We have no good blueprint for how to integrate the contemporary intimacies of female friendship and of marriage into one life.”

— Rebecca Traister

“Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.”

— Elizabeth George

“You're @ home?"She could hear him moving around ... "I'll let you go then."
"What if I dont want you to?"he said.
She heard the music as he walked toward his room, some sort of jazz.her heart sped up, thinking of him stretched out on his bed too, "Good night, Seth."
"So ur running again, then? One of his boots thudded on the floor."I'm not running."..
"Really?"
"Really.Its just
"She stopped.
"Maybe you should slow down, so i can catch you."He paused, waiting.He seemed to do that more & more lately, make statements that invited her to admit something dangerous to their friendship.When she didnt answer he added, "Sweet dreams, Ash.”

— Melissa Marr

“Friendship has its illusions no less than love.”

— Stendhal

“In real life, shouldn't a wedding be an awesome party you throw with your great pal, in the presence of a bunch of your other friends? A great day, for sure, but not the beginning and certainly not the end of your friendship with a person you can't wait to talk about gardening with the for the next forty years.”

— Mindy Kaling

“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what's wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?"
"Kind of like a hobby?" she said, amused.
"Yeah I guess you could call it a hobby. Most normal people would call it friendship or love or something, but if you want to call it a hobby, that's OK too.”

— Haruki Murakami

“All his reckless, whimsical, sensual testing of the world throughout the years had been a search for what he knew with her. Passion and peace. Laughter and combat and friendship. God, but he loved her. It was an immensely humbling, enormous, radiant thing.”

— Julie Anne Long

“To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.”

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

“It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.”

— Jennifer Beals

“Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.”

— Martin McGuinness

“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. It starts in the right manner.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I learned a lot. Friendship and kinship matter more than adventure. Boundaries only exist in our minds. A heart can travel to the horizon without moving a paw step. And I made the best friend any cat ever had.”

— Erin Hunter

“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

“This isn't 'I do something for you, you do something for me'. This is hard-core friendship. Varsity level. This is me asking you to do something for me without getting anything in return. This is friendship, Howie.”

— Barry Lyga

“In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.”

— Jack Valenti

“He's afraid," Graber said.
"Yes, naturally. But he's a good dog."
"And a man-eater."
"We're all that."
"Why?"
"We are. And we think, just like that dog, that we are still good. And just like him we are looking for a bit of warmth and light and friendship.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed.”

— Anna Garlin Spencer

“To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest.”

— Guillaume-Chretien De Lamoignon De Malesherbes

“Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.”

— Sophie Irene Loeb

“Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

“I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.”

— Dorothy Allison

“For me, as far as friendship goes, I think you truly get out of it, what you put into it.”

— Miles Teller

“Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.”

— Anne Lamott

“Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.”

— Anton Chekhov

“Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.”

— Aristotle

“President Roosevelt and President Truman and President Eisenhower had the same experience, they all made the effort to get along with the Russians. But every time, finally it failed. And the reason it failed was because the Communists are determined to destroy us, and regardless of what hand of friendship we may hold out or what arguments we may put up, the only thing that will make that decisive difference is the strength of the United States.”

— John F. Kennedy

“Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.”

— Franz Grillparzer

“Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.”

— Truman Capote

“I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.”

— Veronica Roth

“The teachings of many faiths share much in common. And people of many faiths are united in our commitments to love our families, to protect our children, and to build a more peaceful world. In the coming year, let us resolve to seize opportunities to work together in a spirit of friendship and cooperation. Through our combined efforts, we can end terrorism and rid our civilization of the damaging effects of hatred and intolerance, ultimately achieving a brighter future for all.”

— George W. Bush

“Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they are as mysterious in friendship as in love. It's a relationship like any other.”

— Vivian Gornick

“Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson