Friendship Quotes

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

People don’t change just because you know more about them.

It's like, you can't trust anybody, and if somebody you know doesn't fuck you over it's just because...

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Deep in our hearts there is a call to live in communion with others, a call to love, to create, to r...

But how to be present to another? Our hearts are so hard. We are so insensitive to the suffering of ...

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, no...

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires and spares...

Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dus...

Be with someone you don't want to be without.

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together....

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship ...

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from ho...

Your friend mourns your losses with you, because they experience them too. The truth is, no matter h...

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows the ease of our passions the discharge of our oppression t...

Love is friendship set on fire.

Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have ...

I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that w...

Maybe you know the monsters, Martin," Murphy said quietly. "But I know the guy who stops them. And i...

Lea stood upon a fallen log ahead of us, staring ahead. Mouse walked up to her.Gggrrrr rawf arrrgggr...

Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good...

Da. This is going very well already."Thomas barked out a laugh. "There are seven of us against the R...

I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who...

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning....

Karrin."She looked up at me. She looked very young somehow."Remember what I said yesterday," I said....

There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, ...

Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, ...

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

Moving right alongIn search of good timesAnd good news,With good friends you can't lose.This could b...

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. M...

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It ...

Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studie...

Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studie...

My life seems to have become suddenly hollow and I do not know what is hanging over me. I cannot ev...

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thin...

But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothin...

Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pit...

Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity.

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

We human beings glimpse lofty ideals, catch ourselves betraying them, and sink to suicidal despair--...

Who friendship with a knave hath made Is judged a partner in the trade.

Who friendship with a knave hath made is judged a partner in the trade.

When you date someone, you have the markers along the way, right: You kiss, you have The Talk, you s...

Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even wh...

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets...

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their in...

People say friends don't destroy each otherWhat do they know about friends?

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

Jesus, why would he hook up with Becca?" "Well, she's not known for her personality or generosity of...

Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."Still peeing, Ben looks o...

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really...

You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best fr...

(...) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only perso...

I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't reall...

I'd pick you, I say. Fuck it, I do pick you. I want you to come over to my house in twenty years wit...

I think how much depends upon a best friend. When you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out...

Because you're my friend, wingnut.

When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your n...

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

Friends are the sunshine of life.

Make all good men your well-wishers and then in the years' steady sifting some of them will turn ...

Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan]...

Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. Perhaps it...

I had to be right in never talking about what you could not change, and I had to make many people ag...

All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines agai...

...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understa...

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any mea...

I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They...

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that'swhy.

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make fr...

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That...

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink ...

Good values are like a magnet, they attract good people.

Ah, two firm friends, reunited at last! There should be sweet violin music playing for us, but I'll ...

There's the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that ...

111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best.

My father and he had cemented (the verb is excessive) one of those English friendships which begin b...

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from t...

True happiness ... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next fro...

Love is a friendship set to music.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his ...

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

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile.

Never exact of a friend in adversity what you would require in prosperity.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

...we so resented that asshole up there talking talking talking taking up the entire assembly expect...