Friendship Quotes

Below is the list of my favorite friendship quotes:

1. 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

2. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one." --C.S. Lewis

3. The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. --Elizabeth Foley

4. 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. --Winnie the Pooh

5. Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. --George Eliot

6. "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. --Louisa May Alcott

7. It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. --Marlene Dietrich

8. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. --Edgar Watson Howe

9. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival. -- C. S. Lewis

10. The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? -- Henry David Thoreau

11. 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

12. Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. --Rabindranath Tagore

13. We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. --Samuel Johnson

14. Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. --George Eliot

15. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. --Henri Nouwen