Friendship Quotes

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Augustine Birrell

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Henri Nouwen

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Giotto di Bondone

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.

Victoria Justice

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Anton Chekhov

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

John Leonard

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Lucan

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Stendhal

Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as here it was the same solemn pause, the lull that follows battle; it was the silence of defeat. But the silence now enveloping his dead friend, so dense, so much akin to the nocturnal silence of the streets and of the town set free at last, made Rieux cruelly aware that this defeat was final, the last disastrous battle that ends a war and makes peace itself an ill beyond all remedy. The doctor could not tell if Tarrou had found peace, now that all was over, but for himself he had a feeling that no peace was possible to him henceforth, any more than there can an armistice for a mother bereaved of a son or for a man who buries his friend.

Albert Camus

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Thomas Aquinas

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

Isabel Lucas

Because you're my friend, wingnut.

John Green

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines

Benjamin Franklin

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

Christopher Hitchens

Friends are born, not made.

Henry Adams

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Confucius

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Lord Byron