Quotes about friend
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“Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Suffering, Joy

“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

Friendship, For Friend

“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Success

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Way, Family, Friendship, Cute

“My dear friends, I think you are in very big trouble. Whether you believe it or not, YOU ARE AT WAR. And you may lose this war very soon together with all your affluence and freedoms unless you start defending yourselves.”

Yuri Bezmenov (1939–1993) Russian journalist and whistleblower

Love Letter to America https://archive.org/details/BezmenovLoveLetterToAmerica/page/n1/ (1984)

War, Thinking, Freedom

“Never let a friend kill you twice”

Nelson Itodo (2001) Nigerian Entrepreneur

Source: https://twitter.com/nelsonitodo/status/1406660193979670532?s=19

“I am content in here. I have friends. The food is good. All is well. Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine.”

John McAfee (1945) American computer programmer and businessman

Source: on Twitter https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1316801215083225096, 16 October 2020

Food

“My friend (s), I'm not an atheist like you. In fact, I'm a theist. Meaning, I do believe in One Living God!”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God

“Imagine that Jesus died on the cross. But who will be immortal in this world, or are you not going to die too my dear friend?”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

World, Imagination

“The ambivert doesn't care whether you come as a friend or an enemy. He's always at peace.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Peace

“The main wish of the introvert is to avoid friends as well as enemies.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Please tell my family that I was not able to say goodbye, but that I died with my true friends around me… Pray to God for the good fortune of our country. Continue with your work to attain the happiness and freedom of our beloved country.”

Marcelo H. del Pilar (1850–1896) Filipino writer, lawyer, and journalist (1850-1896)

Source: Marcelo H. del Pilar's last words to Mariano Ponce (4 July 1896)

God, Happiness, Family, Freedom

“I don't have friends, I have family.”

Vin Diesel (1967) American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter

Family

“I don't got friends, I got Flex Seal.”

Vin Diesel (1967) American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter

“If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?
I mean I write poems in these songs dedicated to you
When you're in the mood for empathy, there's blood in my pen
Better yet where your friends and them?”

Kendrick Lamar (1987) American rapper, songwriter and record producer from California

Poetic Justice.
Source: Song lyrics, good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012)

Flowers, Mood

“Loosing your love is okay
loosing your best friend is okay
but loosing yourself for getting them back is not okay.”

Attiah

Love

“True friends know how to listen with the heart, evaluate with reason and relate through their experiences. They treasure everything that lights up their eyes and warms their soul.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) I veri amici sanno ascoltare con il cuore, valutare con la ragione e relazionarsi attraverso le proprie esperienze. Fanno tesoro di tutto ciò che illumina i loro occhi e riscalda la loro anima.
Source: prevale.net

Soul, Light, Heart

“True Friends
are those rare people who actually care about
what you are going through.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

People

“I have learned that…
you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.
No matter how much I care, some people just don't care back.
It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
It's not what you have in your life, but who you have in your life that counts.
You can do something in an instant that will give you a heartache for life.
No matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides.
You should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
We are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.
There are people who love you dearly, but just don't know how to show it.
True friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. The same goes for true love.
Just because someone doesnt love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.
No matter how good a friend someone is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
No matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.
Just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other. And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.
We don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
You shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.
There are so many ways of falling and staying in love.
No matter how many friends you have, if you are their pillar, you will feel lonely and lost at the times you need them most.
The people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon.
Although the word "love" can have many different meanings, it loses value when overly used.
Love is not for me to keep, but to pass on to the next person I see.
There are people who love you dearly but just don't know how to show it.
Every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love that human touch-holding hands, a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
I still have a lot to learn……”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Love, Life, Friendship, People

“Good sirs, take heart: —
We'll bury him; and then, what's brave, what's noble,
Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,
And make Death proud to take us. Come, away:
This case of that spirit now is cold. —
Ah, women, women!
Come; we have no friend
But resolution, and the briefest end.”

Cleopatra VII (-69–-30 BC) last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt

Source: As quoted, Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act III, movie XV, (1623)

Death, Women, Fashion, Heart

“Misunderstanding between two friends is an opportunity to speak reality.”

Yusuf Cornelius Otijenu

Reality

“Bonding within a relationship requires sharing grief equally resulting from the loss of a significant family member or close friend. If the grief is not shared, the partner who encountered the loss, will feel alienated, disrespected and most importantly, alone.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1984

Family, Feeling, Loss

“Hold a true friend with both your hands.”

Engr.Abah Sule

“" Love is the most greatest thing on earth that everlast, love from God to his word, from his words, to a man, from a man to his world. " -Abah Sule, P. E LOVE IS THE ONLY FORCE CAPABLE OF TRANSFORMING AN ENEMY INTO A FRIEND."”

Engr.Abah Sule

Love, God, World

“There is no honour in betraying your friends.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“I'm sorry, Heather, but everything was not just fine before I got here. You know how I know that? Because you're dead. Okay? You are dead. Dead people don't have lockers, or best friends, or boyfriends. You know why? Because they're dead.-Suze Simon”

Meg Cabot book Shadowland

Source: Shadowland

People, Dead

“He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Thinking, Animals

“No one can take the place of a friend, no one.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

Understanding

“What matters is that someone—that you—know me that well. When a person can see into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable. It's much easier being with someone who's just more of a casual friend.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Soul, Personality

“To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Life, Books, Housing

“And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

People, School, Family, Thinking

“What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

“Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

Source: Opium: The Diary of His Cure

Marriage, Hope, Appearance

“There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: The Duke and I

Sister

“Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.”

Darren Shan book The Vampire's Assistant

Source: The Vampire's Assistant

Life, Death, Sleep

“No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?”

Tom Stoppard Arcadia

Source: Arcadia

Books

“If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.”

Lee Strobel (1952) American writer

God

“Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.”

Brian Jacques (1939–2011) British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy novels

Source: The Ribbajack: and Other Haunting Tales

Fate

“A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

Men, Forgetting

“It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know I was never so happy in my whole life.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Variant: And she kissed me. It was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Life, Happiness, Kiss

“And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Source: Something Borrowed

“I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.”

Roberto Bolaño book Amulet

Source: Amulet

Love

“You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

People, World, Feeling

“This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkspell

Books, World, Help

“People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”

James Baldwin book Giovanni's Room

Pt. 1, Ch. 1 - p.4-5 [Page numbers per the 2007 Penguin Books paperback edition.]
Source: Giovanni's Room (1956)

Life, People, Lovers, Parent

“Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

Source: Kill the Dead

Way, Dead

“A friend once said, and I found to be true, That everyday people, they lie to God too, So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.”

Lauryn Hill (1975) American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer, actress

God, People, Lie, Thinking

“The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Feeling

“I think of you as a friend. I used to think "friend" was just another word… Nothing more, nothing less. But when I met you, I realized what was important was the word's meaning.”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Source: Naruto, Band 11

Thinking

“Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“I would rather my enemy's sword pierce my heart then my friend's dagger stab me in the back." Faustus - Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire”

Michele Bardsley (1970) American writer

Heart

“Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.”

Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet

Love, Understanding

“A boy got a splinter in his eye, and his heart turned cold. Only two people noticed. One was a witch, and she took him for her own. The other was his best friend. And she went after him in ill-considered shoes, brave and completely unprepared.”

Anne Ursu (1900) American writer

Source: Breadcrumbs

People, Shoe, Boy, Heart

“The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.”

Christina Rossetti book Goblin Market and Other Poems

Goblin Market, st. 28 (1862).
Source: Goblin Market and Other Poems

Way, Sister, Weather, Family

“very funny my sarcastic friend”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Friends… they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”

Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Dreams, Hope, Friendship, For Friend

“Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Books, Light

“What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly… timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

Fear

“Just because you're the enemy of my enemy don't mean you're my friend, Han thought.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Exiled Queen

“I suppose […] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.”

Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer

Source: Heir to the Shadows

Fools, Way

“stop now before i kill you
a word to the wise from your friend
PENNYWISE”

Stephen King book It

Source: It

“There was once a big atomic bomb
That wanted to be a bullet.
His friends all asked why, when he was such a big atomic bomb, he would want to be a tiny bullet.
"I miss", he sighed, "the personal touch.”

Tuli Kupferberg (1923–2010) American anarchist, poet, publisher and musician.

Personality

“That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.”

Sophie Kinsella book Shopaholic Abroad

Source: Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

Love, World

“Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race”

Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer

Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Pain

“If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.”

Dean Koontz book Forever Odd

Source: Forever Odd (2005), Chapter 11; Odd Thomas's recounting of a conversation with Little Ozzie
Context: "Sometimes," I said, "it seems to me that a friend might not take such pleasure in making fun of me as you do."
"Dear Odd! If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not, in fact, his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying those things that would elicit laughter from strangers? The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness."

“There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another…”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

Faith, Time

“You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.”

Kakuzo Okakura (1862–1913) Japanese scholar, author of The Book of Tea

Source: The Book Of Tea

Sadness, Flowers, Joy

“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Variant: She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Source: Beloved

Friendship, For Friend

“Percy looked at his friends. “I’m getting tired of this guy’s shirt.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Guy

“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”

Dean Koontz book Fear Nothing

Source: Fear Nothing

Life, World, Hope, Friendship

“You've got to take it on faith that the enemy of your enemy is your friend.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Faith

“Because when push comes to shove, we really don't want to have sex with our friends… unless they're sexy. And sometimes we do want to have sex with our blackhearted, soul-sucking enemies… assuming they're sexy.”

Chuck Klosterman book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Sex, Soul

“Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?”

Brian Jacques (1939–2011) British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy novels

Source: Taggerung

Fight

“Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

People

“You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding.”

Brad Thor (1969) American writer

Source: Black List

Help

“Sometimes friends do go from us-it will happen more and more as you grow up, Chugg. But if you really love your friends, they're never really gone. Somewhere they're watching over you and they're always there inside your heart.
-Martin”

Brian Jacques book The Legend of Luke

Source: The Legend of Luke

Love, Heart

“-""Expansion to your ego, friend"".
-""At your expense"".”

Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author

Variant: Expansion to your ego, friend.
-At your expense.

“Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Thinking

“It doesn't matter! From waist down, my best friend is a donkey…..”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

The monster to Robert Walton
Source: Frankenstein (1818)
Context: I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine. When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
Context: I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy? I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory. Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment. Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine. When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

God, Angels