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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

“When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. 'It's all right' we whisper, 'I'm here, I love you.' and we lie: 'I'll never leave you.' For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.”
— Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days
Tagged: Unhappy, Love, Friendship, support
“I’ve learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don’t always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I’ve learned that there are things that go wrong that don’t always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I’ve learned that some broken things stay broken, and I’ve learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.”
— Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed
Tagged: Life Lessons, life advice, Stay Strong, Friendship, Acceptance
“In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. Try to understand each other.”
— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Tagged: Hate, Love, Friendship, Understanding
“The people in your life who truly matter will never admonish you for changing. Instead, they will build you up; they will inspire and motivate you. They will understand that you are striving to be more for yourself, and they will admire you for that; because at the end of the day, change is something you should never be ashamed of. You don’t owe anyone an apology for changing. You don’t owe anyone an apology for being different than you were a year ago, for wanting new things.”
— Bianca Sparacino, You Are Allowed To Change
Tagged: Bianca Sparacino, Friendship
“Turning my back on Malcolm was one of the mistakes that I regret most in my life. I wish I’d been able to tell Malcolm I was sorry, that he was right about so many things. But he was killed before I got the chance. He was a visionary ahead of us all…. I might never have become a Muslim if it hadn’t been for Malcolm. If I could go back and do it over again, I would never have turned my back on him.”
— Muhammad Ali, via Tumblr
Tagged: Activism, racism, Friendship, Black Lives Matter
“Dana: I don't get it. I mean, what does Shane have that I don't have?

Tina: It has to do with her attitude.

Dana: I've got attitude!

Marina: It's because she's so withholding.

Tina: No. It's because she's so confident.

Dana: No, it's because she's so STUPID and stupid people are too dumb to be insecure.

Alice: Dana. She's your friend.

Tina: It's confidence okay? I'm telling you... it's because of her nipples.

Dana: What do you mean it's because of her nipples?

Tina: She has the best nipples in town and she knows it.

Alice: Oh my God. You're so right. She has nipple confidence!

Tina: Yeah, they're small and they're perfectly formed.

Alice: I wonder if I could sell a story on L.A's best nipples.”
— Dana Fairbanks, The L Word, Season 1: Pilot Part 1
Tagged: Lesbian, LGBTQ, Confidence, Stupid, Attitude, Withholding, Friend, nipples, Nipple Confidence
“The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.”
— Cornelia Funke, The Inkheart Trilogy: Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath
Tagged: Reading, Books, Friendship, Love
“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
— Eugene Kennedy, Eugene Kennedy
Tagged: Friendship, Friends, Love
“Leos are fiercely loyal and some of the most generous friends to have. People are drawn to their enthusiasm and passion in everything they do.”
— Caithlin Pena, Why People Are Drawn To You, According To Your Zodiac Sign
Tagged: Leos, Horoscope, Zodiac, Loyalty, Generosity, Friendship, Enthusiasm, Passion
“A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.”
— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Tagged: Friendship, Lonely, humanity
“I'd like to start it out from the bottom and build with ya
Be on my last dollar and split the bill with ya”
— Kendrick Lamar, Poe Mans Dreams (His Vice)
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Self Worth, Friendship
“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.”
— Stephen Fry, More Fool Me: A Memoir
Tagged: Depression, Questions, Friendship
“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”
— Joe Hill, Horns: A Novel
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Strangers
“Lonely was much better than alone.”
— Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)
Tagged: Lonely, Alone, Friendship, Relationships
“That’s the thing, isn’t it? About friendships. You don’t know what he needs. You only know he needs it.”
— Delphi, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition): The Official Script Book of the Original West End Production
Tagged: Friendship, Intuition, BFF
“Bye Abbi, I'll see you when you wake up... And if you don't wake up, I'll still see you 'cause I'm gonna kill myself and meet you in Heaven or whatever.'”
— Ilana Grazer, Broad City
Tagged: Best Friends, Friendship, Friends
“You guys might not know this, but I consider myself a bit of a loner. I tend to think of myself as a one-man wolf pack. But when my sister brought Doug home, I knew he was one of my own. And my wolf pack... it grew by one. So there... there were two of us in the wolf pack... I was alone first in the pack, and then Doug joined in later. And six months ago, when Doug introduced me to you guys, I thought, 'Wait a second, could it be?' And now I know for sure, I just added two more guys to my wolf pack. Four of us wolves, running around the desert together, in Las Vegas, looking for strippers and cocaine.”
— Alan, The Hangover
Tagged: Friendship, Best Friends, Wolf Pack, Friends
“I regret opening up to some people; they didn’t deserve to know me like that.”
— Anonymous, via Tumblr
Tagged: Trust, Betrayal, Break Up, Friendship, Relationship, Single
“Nancy: 'What did she even eat?'

Mike: 'What?'

Nancy: 'Eleven.'

Mike: 'Oh... candy, leftovers, Eggo's... she really likes Eggo's.'”
— Mike Wheeler, Stranger Things, Stranger Things Season 1: Chapter Seven
Tagged: Stranger Things, Supernatural, Love, Friendship, Family, Eggo's
“Are you deaf? I thought we were friends, you know? But friends tell each other the truth. And they definitely don't lie to each other. You made me think that Will was okay; that he was still out there but he wasn't! He wasn't. Maybe you thought you were helping but you weren't. You hurt me, do you understand? What you did sucks.”
— Mike Wheeler, Stranger Things, Stranger Things Season 1: Chapter Four
Tagged: Stranger Things, Supernatural, Friendship, Betrayal, Pain, hurt
“We never would've upset you if we knew you had superpowers.”
— Dustin Henderson, Stranger Things, Stranger Things Season 1: Chapter Two
Tagged: Stranger Things, Supernatural, Friendship, crazy, Superpowers
“Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
Tagged: help, Closeness, Friendship
“Friends share secrets, that's what keeps us close.”
— Allison, Pretty Little Liars
Tagged: Love, Friendship, Secrets
“If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.”
— Dean Koontz, Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, Laughter
“We struggle so hard to hold on to these things that we know are gonna disappear eventually. And that’s really noble.”
— Lily Aldrin, How I Met Your Mother
Tagged: HIMYM, how i met your mother, Life, Holding On, Relationships, Love, Friendship
“I hate everyone who loves me.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Self-Love, Self-Sabatgoe, Girls, Friendship, Family, Self-Esteem
“When I look at both of you, a Coldplay song plays in my heart.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls
Tagged: Girls, Love, Friendship, Relationships
“In order to avoid these misplaced, tangled feelings, stop ‘hanging out.’ You are not supposed to be BFFs and then also have a no strings attached relationship. That’s just not possible! You have to take serious precautions to make sure your lives don’t intertwine beyond the physical!”
— Riya Roy, 10 Casual Relationship Rules To Keep In Mind At All Times
Tagged: Casual Sex, Friends, Friendship
“He becomes your dad’s buddy and hangs out with him a lot.”
— June, 20 Signs He’s Going to Propose
Tagged: forever person, Marriage, father, Friendship, Parents
“One thing people overlook is that friends can be anywhere. They don’t have to have the same diet or music taste or politics as you. They don’t have to be your age or your color or your class... Making friends can be one of the scariest fucking things you’ll ever do, but once you have them they’ll help soothe that fear. We can make it alone but it’s better (and more fun) not to.”
— Adam Gnade, The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin' Sad
Tagged: Friendship, Making Friends, Social Anxiety
“There’s a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn’t very lovable.”
— Yasmin Mogahed, Twitter
Tagged: thankful, Friendship, Loyalty, Special People
“It seemed like you could know me. Like you could understand anything I told you. And the more we spoke, I knew why. The same things excited us. The same things concerned us.”
— Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
Tagged: Friendship, Relationship, Love, Others
“We didn’t talk about anything heavy or light.
We were just there together. And that was enough.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Love, Presence, Friendship
“It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.”
— Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?
Tagged: Sadness, Friendship, Love, Memories, Stranger
“Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.”
— Proverbs 11:14, Holy Bible, ESV
Tagged: Friendship, Bible Verses About Friendship, Bible Verses, Friends
“Friendships don't magically last forty years. You have to invest in them.”
— Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City
Tagged: Friendship, Investment
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Tagged: Friendship
“There’s something about the frantic, desperate friendships we form when we’re young that can simply never be reconstructed.”
— Heidi Priebe, Why We’ll Always Be Closest To The People Who Knew Us When We Were Young And Reckless
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Friends
“But then I wondered if sometimes our friendships are a bit like clothes and when they start feeling uncomfortable it's not because we've done anything wrong. It just means that we've outgrown them.”
— Zoe Sugg, Girl Online: The First Novel by Zoella
Tagged: Friendship, Moving On
“But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.”
— Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, strength, Weakness
“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”
— Adrienne Rich, 'Disloyal to Civilization': Feminism, Racism, and Gynephobia,' in Chrysalis No. 7
Tagged: feminism, Female Empowerment, Female Connection, Feminist, Being a woman, Friendship, Female Friendships
“Your real friends are not the ones who shatter you. They are the ones that help you pick up your broken parts and stitch them back together. They are your wolf pack who growl at anyone who tries to eat you alive.

They are your sisters by choice, and your sisters forever. They won’t let you go no matter how much you try to run, and no matter how much you try to hide.”
— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, A True Friend Picks Up The Phone At 3AM And Favorites Every Single Subtweet You Send
Tagged: Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Friendship, Love
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
— Oprah Winfrey, Quotes Valley
Tagged: Oprah Winfrey, Friendship, Love
“But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?”
— Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales (Leather-bound Classics)
Tagged: Giving, Friendship, Love
“Never forget: self-awareness is a sacred duty, one that rises above everything else. It would be selfish to think that you are no use to anyone and to waste your talents and energy following around people who don’t know what they want to do with their lives.”
— Martin Laird, Why Successful People Leave Their Loser Friends Behind
Tagged: Friendship, Break Up
“There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.”
— Daniel Keyes, Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey
Tagged: Friendship, Happiness
“Connect with people who remind you of what you truly are.”
— Ralph Smart
Tagged: Friendship, Identity
“The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.”
— Bill Russell
Tagged: Friendship, Relationship, Happiness, Making Friends
“We all deserve friends we can brag to about our success without them taking that shit personal.”
— Ebonee Davis
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, Real Friends, True Friends
“"Good by is not enough, it needs more words than
Two, When friends do bid a long Adieu"”
— Nathan Hale, Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of America's First Spy
Tagged: goodbye, Farewell, bye, Words, Enough, Express, adieu, Relationship, Friend, Friendship