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Friendship Quotes

Friendships in life come and go. They visit us like a warm patch of sun during the spring months then sometimes depart us like a winter season. Cherish those friendships now. We've made the absolute best short friendship quotes and true friendship quotes you can find. We hope you enjoy this page. If you have more short friendship quotes you'd like to include on this page please email us at support@quotecatalog.com

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Last updated: May 20, 2020

647 Friendship Quotes organized by Most Popular

“We didn’t have to talk then, and that is real friendship. Never uncomfortable with silence, which, in its welcome form, is yet an extension of conversation.”
— Patti Smith, My Buddy: Patti Smith Remembers Sam Shepard
Tagged: Friendship, Culture, Culture Desk, Sam Shepard, postscript
“With that right person, you can have a late-night conversation at any time of the day.”
— David Levithan, Are We There Yet
Tagged: Friendship, Conversation
“If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.”
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Transformation
“I wasn’t hurt that he didn’t want to be my boyfriend. I was aware that it wouldn’t lead to anything, and I was sadder, about more than anything, that I would eventually be losing a friend.”
— Rebecca Fields, This Is The Cold Hard Truth About Almost Relationships
Tagged: Almost Relationships, Boyfriend, Friendship
“There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect.”
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Tagged: Fighting, Friendship, Expectations
“I do not want to look for a mad passionate affair. Not because I’m frightened but because, please believe me, I do not want a lover. I want a friend.”
— Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters
Tagged: Love, Passion, Lovers, Friendship, Falling In Love, romance
“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Tagged: Friend, Friends, Friendship
“Dr. Joan Watson: Hey, I found something in the hall closet the other day.

Sherlock Holmes: Was it the zipper mask, because I swear I'm just holding that for a friend.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Elementary, Season 1: While You Were Sleeping
Tagged: hall closet, found, zipper mask, Friend
“I wanted a friend to come over and lounge on my couch and drink wine with and laugh over the latest swipe-right disaster story. What’s a first date-date if you can’t share with friends?”
— Liz Presson, I Met My BFF on Bumble
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, bumble, dating apps, Friendship Apps, The Digital Age
“Why were you rude to me when we first met, then nicer to me the second time we met, and now you want to be my friend? Which time was it that you were pretending?”
— Dr. Shaun Murphy, The Good Doctor, Season 1: Burnt Food
Tagged: Rude, pretending, Friend, nicer
“I, my friend... I am the uncle, and the protector, and the promoter of that fucking thing right there, in whose shadow nothing good nor godly will ever fucking grow.”
— Alfie Solomons, Peaky Blinders, Series 4: Dangerous
Tagged: Friend, Uncle, protector, Promote
“Hug me, lean on my shoulder
Have strong trust in me
You know that saying
I know even though you don’t say it
That is very touching but
Please tell me even if you know”
— Kim Jonghyun, 1000
Tagged: Friendship, Trust
“I am not your lab partner. I am not your friend. I’m your slave. You want to know what happens on the other side? Put yourself in that machine and die for it.”
— Prairie Johnson, The OA, Season 1: Forking Paths
Tagged: Refusal, Lab Partner, Friend, Slave, Machine, Die
“If you have ever lost a friend, you know that it makes your world feel incomplete, like a puzzle with a piece missing, or one half of a broken spyglass.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Austere Academy
Tagged: lost, Friend, Incomplete, Puzzle
“Suddenly, the whole world goes dark and nothing else matters except the person standing in front of you.”
— Rue Bennett, Euphoria, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: dark, Love, Friendship, Nothing Else Matters
“I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right, and he'll treat you right. He'll keep you company, be your friend, and never ask you no questions.”
— Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Tagged: Dogs, Friendship, Friends
“A mother who is not everything for her children: a friend, a teacher, a confidant, a source of joy and founded pride, inducement and soothing, reconciliator, judge and forgiver, that mother obviously chose the wrong job.”
— Joseph Goebbels
Tagged: Motherhood, Teacher, Friend
“Even when I was a kid, my imaginary friend would play with the kid across the street. I'd be like, "Hey, so I guess I'll see you later," and he's, like, "Whatever, queer". That's a hate crime!”
— Daniel Tosh, Daniel Tosh: An Unauthorized Biography
Tagged: Childhood, Friend, imaginary friend, Conversation, Imagination, Queer, Hate crime, imaginary
“Veronica Sawyer: Heather, why can't you just be a friend? Why do you have to be such a mega-bitch?


Heather Duke: Because I can be.”
— Veronica Sawyer, Heathers
Tagged: Friend, Bitch, Mega-Bitch, Because I can
“Life is nothing without friends.”
— Unknown
Tagged: Friendship, Friends, Life
“Today my mom told me.. ‘a person who values you, wouldn’t ever put themselves in a position to lose you.’ and that really hit deep.”
— yxngxanhoe, via Tumblr
Tagged: Tumblr, Love, Friendship, Relationships, Fight
“I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change.”
— Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah
Tagged: People Change, Relationships, Friendship, People Come and Go, Love & Relationships, Life
“What is sweeter in life than friendliness?”
— Conrad E. Meinecke, Your Cabin in the Woods
Tagged: Friendship, Warmth, Loving Others
“Date someone who would still be your favorite person to be around even if there was nothing physical in your relationship.”
— Soft Grung
Tagged: Friendship
“If you’re fortunate enough, you will find a person who sees this world in the exact same way that you do.”
— Ryan O'Connell, You Can’t Get Through Your 20s Without A Best Friend
Tagged: Friendship, Life, Friends, Love
“She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Friendship, Relationships
“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”
— Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, Gratitude
“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Friendship, BFFs
“The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don’t. But, in the end, they’re the people you always come home to. Sometimes it’s the family you’re born into and sometimes it’s the one you make for yourself.”
— Carrie, Sex And The City Quotes
Tagged: Sex And The City, Friendship, Love
“If you improve someone's life, you'll always have friends.”
— Wesley Snipes
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, Helping Others, Goodness, kindness
“Friends are the flowers in the garden of life.”
— Unknown, Friends Are The Flowers In The Garden of Life
Tagged: Friendship, Examples of Similes, Friends
“You will fall in love with your friends. Deep, passionate love. You will create a second family with them, a kind of tribe that makes you feel less vulnerable. Sometimes our families can’t love us all the time. Sometimes we’re born into families who don’t know how to love us properly. They do as much as they can but the rest is up to our friends. They can love you all the time, without judgement. At least the good ones can.”
— Ryan O'Connell,
Tagged: Love, Friendship, Relationships, families
“But I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both. I want to share every single one of your sunshines and save them for later. I will tuck them into my pockets so I can give them back to you when the rain falls hard. Friend, I want to be the mirror that reminds you to love yourself. I want to be the air in your lungs that reminds you to breath. When the walls come down, when the thunder rumbles, when nobody else is home, hold my hand, and I promise I won’t let go.”
— Sarah Kay, Sarah Kay's Poetry
Tagged: Love, Friendship, Helping someone, Happiness
“I’m in love with him, and I think I’ve known that for a long time, but now I can’t stop myself from admitting it. I love the way he dances for me, trying to make me laugh, not caring if he looks a little like a fool. He is adorable and charming, and the breath leaves my lungs and my heart forgets to beat, moment after moment.

I love him.

I love him.

I love him.”
— Megan Hart, Tear You Apart
Tagged: Love, Laughter, Friendship
“If you love like that, blood runs cold.”
— Taylor Swift, Bad Blood
Tagged: Friendship, Friendship Breakup, breakup, Love
“Stop calling people who don't call you. Stop visiting people who don't know where you live. Stop making time for people who don't have time for you. Stop spending on people who don't spend on you. Stop thinking about people who don't think about you. You will make yourself emotionally bankrupt. You can love someone from a distance and I am not just talking about romantic relationships, but all relationships: friends, family, etc. Treat people the way they treat you and stop over-exerting yourself and giving love where it's not returned. Life is difficult enough without having to beg people for their love and attention. The least you can do for yourself is surround yourself with people who genuinely love and care about you. And most importantly surround yourself with people that don't see you as an option. There is nothing worse that people who treat you like you are replaceable.”
— Unknown, via Facebook
Tagged: Friendship, Break Up, Relationship, Letting Go, Take Care Of Yourself, Take Back Your Life, Unrequited Love
“I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind… I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.”
— Milan Kundera, The Farewell Party
Tagged: Freedom, Friendship
“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”
— Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place(Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)
Tagged: Friendship, Time, Silence, Understanding
“If it pleases you to be my true loyal mistress and friend, to give yourself up to me body and soul, I promise, I'll take you as my only mistress. I won't have a thought or an affection for anyone else.”
— Henry VIII of England, The Tudors, Season 1: Arise, My Lord
Tagged: loyal, Mistress, Friend, Body, Soul, affection
“Dwight Schrute: Big changes coming to the old desk clump. No longer a Pam-Jim alliance against Dwight. Now it is Dwight and a friend axis against Pam.

Jim Halpert: You could've just called that an alliance too, right?

Dwight Schrute: I chose my words very carefully.”
— Dwight Schrute, The Office, Season 9: Junior Salesman
Tagged: Alliance, Partners, Axis, Friend, Office Politics, Work
“Fender: You consider me a friend?

Rodney Copperbottom: Sure. What else would I consider you?

Fender: I don't know. An embarrassment? A way to rebel against your parents? A desperate cry for help? The list is endless.”
— Fender (voice), Robots
Tagged: Friend, rebel, Embarrassment
“Notice all the people who make an effort to stay in your life.”
— Anonymous, The Artidote
Tagged: Effort, Love, Dating, Friendship, Relationship
“I'm reaching out on behalf of a friend of mine who needs some help.
His wife told him to go out and get some of those pills that would help him get an erection.
When he came back he handed her some diet pills.
Anyway, he's looking for a place to live. Can you help him?”
— NZMilkSteak, I'm reaching out on behalf of a friend of mine who needs some help!
Tagged: Friend, Married Couple, Pills
“shoutout to everyone who doesnt actually have a solid best friend because their best friends have better best friends or because they dont bond enough with people to have best friends or because their ‘best friends’ constantly come and go and it just kinda leaves them feeling vaguely isolated even though they might have plenty of regular friends.”
— Lili May
Tagged: Friendship, Loner, Best friend, Friendless, Social Butterfly
“Men cast their wives and girlfriends to play best friend, lover, career advisor, stylist, social secretary, emotional cheerleader, mom—to him, their future kids, or both—and eventually, on-call therapist minus the $200/hour fee), this form of emotional gold digging is not only detrimental to men, it's exhausting an entire generation of women.”
— Melanie Hamlett, Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden
Tagged: Friendship, Men, Women, Relationships, Dating
“Are the people in my social circle a positive influence on my life?”
— Kathryn Mott, 24 Life-Changing Questions You Need to Ask Yourself
Tagged: Questions, Friends, Friendship
“New rule: You live your life, you heal, and in the meantime, we're friends.”
— Stefan Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 7: Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take
Tagged: Friendship, Friends, Life
“We're in this life together, tethered to each other, fumbling and trying to find our way...”
— Daniell Koepke, Daring To Take Up Space
Tagged: Unity, Friendship, Struggling is Okay, You Are Not Alone
“Don’t trust people who don’t support you as you try to grow into a more mature and self-realized person. Don’t confide in people who aren’t as interested in your triumphs as they are in your downfalls.”
— Danielle Mertina, via Tumblr
Tagged: Relationships, Trust, Spilled Ink, Wisdom, Growth, Self love, Friendship
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye
Tagged: Books, Reading, author, Friendship