Friendship Quotes

“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”

“I believe in the philosophy of friendship.”

“Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.”

“As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.”

“The function of a friend is not to have a function.”

“Friends are divided into two great classes: Those you need, and those who need you.”

“Friends are lost by calling often, and by calling seldom.”

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”

“You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend — to tell you you did all you could.”

“When failure confronts us and darkens our goals, How we long for the clasp of a hand; It is then that we cry from the depths of our souls For a friend who can just understand.”

“All you would have your friend to you, that must you be to him—and more; for there can be no thought of balancing of favors given by friend to friend; the obligations reach beyond; nor is there any selfishness, save selfishness for him. Full friendship is the selfishness and the unselfishness, at once, of two, bound into twinship fair of soul and spirit. Seek you then for friend one whom you understand down to the depths, up to the heights, of being, whose soul meets yours with the same understanding. Only so can you, can he, attain that sympathy which, growing with your intercourse, at last reaches beyond mere understanding, gains the other's thought and feeling, though no word be spoken, knows from the eyes of truth, and stands to aid in every project nobly true as ready as to speak against the false: Then may you say, "I have, he has, a friend!"”

“A true friend is for ever a friend.”