“Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.”

“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.”

George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) American drama critic and magazine editor

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“True friendship implies full confidence, which may only be completely given or completely withdrawn. If friendship has continually to be analyzed, nursed, and cured, it will cause more anguish than love itself, without having love's strength and its remedies. And if this confidence is ill-placed? Well - I would rather be betrayed by a false friend than deceive a true one.”

André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer

“There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances.”

Stephen Kendrick book The Love Dare

“And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

“If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.”

François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims