“Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.”

“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.”

Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

“A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”

Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist

“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”

François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs

“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