We’ve rounded up 36 quotes that showcase the power and importance of friendship. Read and share them with your most treasured friends.
“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
“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
“The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.”
Sir Francis Bacon
“Many people will walk in and out of your life but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscious: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain
“Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love.”
William Shakespeare
“Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget.”
G. Randolf
“A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.”
Proverbs 27:9
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
“How beautiful it is to find someone who asks for nothing but your company.”
Brigitte Nicole
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
Charles Lamb
“‘We’ll be friends forever, won’t we Pooh?’ asked Piglet.
‘Even longer’ Pooh answered.”
A.A Milne
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.”
Irish proverb
“The only way to have a friend is be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
David Tyson Gentry
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
Bob Marley
“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship is conversation.”
Oscar Wilde
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
Plutarch
“Be true to work, your word, and your friends.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
Virginia Woolf
“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.”
Maya Angelou
“No friendship is an accident.”
O. Henry
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
Hanya Yanagihara (A Little Life)
“‘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)
“They buy things all ready made at shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
“True friends are families which you can select.”
Audrey Hepburn
“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”
Abraham Lincoln
“True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”
George Washington
“One always measures friendships by how they show up in bad weather.”
Winston Churchill
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
Woodrow Wilson
“Two things you will never have to chase: True friends and true love.”
Mandy Hale
“Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
Tennessee Williams
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
Elizabeth Foley
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Walter Winchell
“There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.”
Henry Ford
Thank you for this. Unfortunately I’ve yet to encounter anyone who consistently match how I define friendship. The sad part about my high expectations is now I don’t expect to. I understand people are not perfect especially myself but shouldn’t have to always tolerate insensitive, erratic mood swings. This is likely how so many end up alone enjoying their hobbies. If you’re lucky enough to find a friend that don’t annoy you, consider it a rare blessing because it is.