Quotes about friendship

We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. In small comments, many of them teasing, they reveal they know our foibles and except them and so, in turn, accept that we have a place in the world.

It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing; neither do they expect anything. Friends you can hurt, for they expect everything.

I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.

A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.

It never ceases to surprise me how few friends the doomed have. One moment they are surrounded by smiling faces, the next they are utterly friendless.

It’s all right to need help. All of us have things we can’t do alone.

Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.

"Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world."

"I don't have any friends here for the winter," I said, and I didn't.

"You shouldn't push your friends away like that. The best friends you'll ever have are the ones you're making right now. I know you don't believe me, but they start to fall away when you get to be my age."

As my father used to say: “There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.”

Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.

What nobler relationship than that of friend? What nobler compliment can man bestow than friendship? The bonds and ties of the life we know break easily, but through eternity one bond remains — the bond of fellowship — the fellowship of atoms, of star dust in its endless flight, of suns and worlds, of gods and men. The clasped hands of comradeship unite in a bond eternal — the fellowship of spirit.