Friendship Quotes
Sad Quotes about Friendship

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne

I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock

Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins

A good-bye is never painful unless
you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee

Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain

I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort

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

A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker

Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield

A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde

We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus

Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates