Friends Quotes
Dave Matthews Band
A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever
3922 Deb Caletti
That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.
2120 Bobbi Kay
I write to get ideas out of my head
4124 Charlotte Brontë
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.
2634 Seema Gupta
Love has turned to be a sad tragedy of my life even we both are alive
4654 Seema Gupta
He left me millions of time, but I am holding him with every breath with same madness
3572 Maria Robinson
Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we'll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we're not all still friends.
2691 Ariana Grande
School is tough sometimes, but it’s all about knowing who your real friends are.
2312 Jon Katz
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.
4258 Friedrich Nietzsche
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
2884 Colette
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.
4363 David Levithan
Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.
2811 Jenny Han
Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?
1836 Nicole Yatsonsky
Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments-because they're willing to brave the shadows with you-and in your greatest moments-because they're not afraid to let you shine.
2349 Groucho Marx
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
1457 Groucho Marx
When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.
4269 Jane Austen
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
4584 David Sedaris
Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.
1471 Mark Twain
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
4545 Abraham Lincoln
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
2208 Haruki Murakami
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
4990 Nicholas Sparks
People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.
3907 Simone De Beauvoir
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
1650 John Boyle O'Reilly
Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you;
Be true to your word and your work and your friend;
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
1261 E.A. Bucchianeri
An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
2069 David Rovics
They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.
2323 Charlotte Eriksson
I want people to feel safe around me. Calm and at peace and I want to make people feel accepted. I want to express confidence on my own path, and spread confidence to other people on theirs.
1316 Friedrich Nietzsche
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
3461 Brenda Ueland
Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.
3755 Rabih Alameddine
How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?
2902 Lynette Mather
When a character comes to life, it’s like meeting a new friend for the first time.
1544 Jennifer Elisabeth
But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.
2987 Rodney Barnes
My Miracle, living through a Traumatic brain Injury
2289 Beverly Lewis
Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.
4430 Thomas Bernhard
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me-I have no others.
1020 Agona Apell
Friends are won through personal contact, but admirers are won through their contact with our works
3415 Sanhita Baruah
I, sometimes, fear that probably I'll just keep changing cities, and may be someday I'll also travel the world, but never find another soul who thinks exactly the way I do.
2307 Michael Bassey Johnson
Almost everybody gets tired and bored by one lackadaisical topic. If you hit them with something delicious, like a sexy adventure, then the world will want to hear you speak, mind you! Don't become a vulgarian.
4961 Ogwo David Emenike
80% of man's happiness is based on love - love for others, love for self, love for family, love for friends, love for work, love for nature, and love for being loved.
4957 Michael Bassey Johnson
We have enough space in our hearts, but we are afraid of allowing animals shit and mess around with our feelings.
1038 Slash Coleman
Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?
1328 Slash Coleman
Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.
3795 Slash Coleman
I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.
2840 Orson Scott Card
He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying among friends.
1160 Esther Earl
Just be happy. And if you can't be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with people that make you happy.
4831 James A. Murphy
Life is this simple ~ birth, eat, drink, play, explore, and relate to family and friends; be happy and enjoy life…!
4887 Brandi L. Bates
Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.
3456 Jim George
Your impact on the lives of others-your family, the people at your church, your workmates-is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.
2616 Philip Green
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
2195 Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked.
1381 Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret.
1868 Chila Woychik
I don’t want to believe in boxes or one-way relationships; I’m naïve, you see. I’d rather moon the moon than flip off a friend, but sometimes I flip so I don’t get flipped. And I still think I’m misunderstanding the Golden Rule.
3666 Chila Woychik
I speak, I speak, and truth at that. Writers are a curious breed: brooding, fickle, alternately loving and hating their work - and each other. You’re my friend? Don’t pick up that pen!
1185 Charles Bukowski
Once in a rare lifetime have you ever been in a roomful of people who only helped you when you looked at them, listened to them. this was one of those magic times. I knew it.
4682 J.M. Richards
If he can’t handle it, then you aren’t very good friends, are you?
4121 Victor Hugo
Friend' is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.
3407 Zadie Smith
Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.
3711 John Geddes
...I need you to be a listener - you need me to hang word on. We're friends because neither has discovered a limit where the other ends...
3393 Seema Gupta
My Love tears me between the addiction of patience and urge of infinite desire
2088 Seema Gupta
Love is your addiction to an eternal longing for someone...A thirst which one cannot relinquish
1786 Seema Gupta
I loved him beyond madness being one soul one vein one body , which he never deserved
3438 Seema Gupta
I would prefer to live with bleeding heart where desire see darkness of uncertainty because I need to know the existence of love
1648 Seema Gupta
For love I have invested my life with no return
3312 Seema Gupta
I was in love when I felt your soul speaks in my Body
2072 Seema Gupta
For me love is when I don't limit you, I put you on the rainbows......
beyond eternity of time and destiny
2625 Seema Gupta
He could not fit in my imagination and I was not fit for his Real and the conflict between imagination and real sadly made us apart
4212 Seema Gupta
Love is breathing each other with all madness
2467 Seema Gupta
For your love I have uprooted all my desires, I am no more demanding...
2388 Seema Gupta
Love is An invited deal for losing peace
1362 Seema Gupta
Love is floating somewhere in the beautiful horizon with an equal wave length with same frequency of intense feelings
1824 Seema Gupta
Love is when Looking at a glance at you
I found laughter in my eyes, Thoughts turns into jewels Where luster of your aura dwells
1513 Seema Gupta
Revealing of origin , evidence the existence of hidden pearls in mind which is addicted to imagine and thought as well.
1543 Seema Gupta
Moments without you made me realize How Idle I am in my life
3183 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular - all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.
2014 Rachel Ward
Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world - to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.
3976 John Irving
You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
1463 Daniel J. Rice
I often wonder what happened to those few I spent my youth in battle beside, those select individuals whom I was drawn to simply by coincidence, whom I joined forces with against an unknown future and a world so large that we depended upon each other because none of us knew a damn thing, and we were all so wise.
4182 Darnell Lamont Walker
With tact, exit from the world I’ve created, and we never have to speak of those good times again.
3634 Mandy Hale
Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.
1505 Tori Spelling
With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.
4626 A.A. Milne
I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.
3073 Jody Gehrman
I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.
2800 A.A. Milne
But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
4891 Tahereh Mafi
Kenji snorts.“That’s because you’re not fragile,” Kenji says. “If anything, everyone needs to protect themselves from you. You’re like a freaking beast,” he says. Then adds, “I mean, you know - like, a cute beast. A little beast that tears shit up and breaks the earth and sucks the life out of people.
2454 Lauren Kate
And Daniel?" She asked.
"Daniel was a player-"
"Hey!"
"That's what they called the actors." Bill rolled his eyes.
4619 Tamora Pierce
Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.
1763 Paulo Coelho
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
4371 Tehyi Hsieh
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
1550 Nick Hornby
my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
3633 Edna St. Vincent Millay
My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.
4627 Santosh Kalwar
Friends are like bras, attached near your heart for support. Foes are like panties, deported, every now and then, when they get dirty.
1603 Sarah Dessen
the unknown wasn’t always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be riskier, because the words they say and the things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.
3771 Julia Gregson
If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell and egg. And that these people held the essence of you inside them. The rest would be conversations that ended when night fell, or the dinner part ended.
1075 J. Donald Adams
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends - always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
2441 Jennifer Elisabeth
I could watch him do this until morning - never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly - his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.
3275 Maverick Hill
It's not about saying your sorry, or expecting me to forgive you. It's about showing love and respect to the people in your life each day you get to breathe. It's about taking responsibility for your decisions, honoring your commitments, and not fucking up in the first place.
3990 Norman Maclean
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
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