50 best friend quotes to remind you how beautiful friendship really is

Love can come in many forms, whether it be romantic, platonic or a combination of both. Strong friendships sit at the top of that pyramid, often acting as a safe space where we can be who we truly are.

They say actions speak louder than words. But sometimes, you may want to verbalize how much you love and appreciate the special people in your life. That's where quotes can help.

Here is a compiled list of quotes about friends and friendship:

50 friendship quotes

• "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside." – Winnie the Pooh
• "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." – Elbert Hubbard
• "No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." – Alice Walker, "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose"
• "The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." – Elisabeth Foley
• "Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life." – Amy Poehler, "The Art of Inside Out"
• "Friendship is a wildly underrated medication." – Anna Deavere Smith
• "Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find." – William Shakespeare, "The Passionate Pilgrim"
• "A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself." – Frank Crane
• "True friends are always together in spirit." – L.M. Montgomery, "Anne of Green Gables"
• "When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands." –Maria Shriver
• "The best mirror is an old friend." – George Herbert
• "True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side." – Josh Grayson
• "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." – Aristotle
• "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget." – G. Randolf
• "No friendship is an accident." – O. Henry, "Heart of the West"
• "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." – Anais Nin
• "In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends." – John Churton Collins
• "Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief." – Marcus Tullius Cicero
• "Friendship is the wine of life." – Edward Young
• "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." – Bernard Meltzer
• "A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world." – Leo Buscaglia
• "Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer." – Ed Cunningham
• "Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world." – John Evelyn
• "There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature." – Jane Austen, "Northanger Abbey"
• "Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation." – Tennessee Williams, "Memoirs"
• "Remember that life's most valuable antiques are dear old friends." – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
• "Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love." – Mandy Hale
• "It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds." – Gina Barreca
• "I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing." – Katherine Mansfield
• "A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out." – Shannon I. Adler
• "There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy." – Henry Ford
• "Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected." – C.J. Langenhoven
• "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." – Marcel Proust
• "Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart." – Eleanor Roosevelt
• "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." – Muhammad Ali
• "Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend." – Sarah Dessen, "Someone Like You"
• "True friendship is a plant of slow growth." – George Washington
• "How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em." – Shel Silverstein, "A Light in the Attic"
• "Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it." – Sarah Addison Allen, "The Peach Keeper"
• "If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky." – S.E. Hinton
• "True friendship resists time, distance and silence." – Isabel Allende
• "A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." – Donna Roberts
• "True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice." – Ben Johnson
• "Friendship is love without wings." – George Gordon Byron
• "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"
• "I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much." – L.M. Montgomery, "Anne of Avonlea"
• "That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart." – Kristin Hannah, "Firefly Lane"
• "A friend is one who walks in when others walk out." – Walter Winchell
• "A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world." – Lois Wyse
• "Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there." – Christy Evans

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