30 Quotes on Friendship (2024)

Stephanie A. Sarkis Ph.D.

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30 Quotes on Friendship (2)

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  1. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” ― C.S. Lewis
  2. “Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ― Albert Camus
  3. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ― Elbert Hubbard
  4. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
  5. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”― Mark Twain
  6. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
  7. “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” ― Linda Grayson
  8. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
  9. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.” ― Alfred Tennyson
  10. “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” ― Bob Marley
  11. “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” ― Marlene Dietrich
  12. “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” ― William Shakespeare
  13. “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” ― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
  14. “'We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. 'Even longer,' Pooh answered.”― A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
  15. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” ― Helen Keller
  16. “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
  17. “When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.” ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
  18. “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
  19. “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
  20. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” ― Aristotle
  21. “I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.” ― Jon Katz
  22. “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ― A.A. Milne
  23. “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.” ― Muhammad Ali
  24. “Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.” ― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
  25. “Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.” ― Margaret Lee Runbeck
  26. “Why did you do all this for me?" he asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.'
    'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
  27. “'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” ― Charles Lamb, The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb
  28. “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
  29. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” ― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
  30. “Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.” ― William Shakespeare

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Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, Ph.D., N.C.C., D.C.M.H.S., L.M.H.C., is the author of Gaslighting: Recognize Manipulative and Emotionally Abusive People—and Break Free.

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