Quotes about Friendship
Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.
— Walt Whitman
A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.
— Henri Nouwen
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
— Zig Ziglar
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
— Joseph Addison
We are all called to be friends with Jesus. Don't be afraid to love the Lord.
— Pope Francis
Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.
— CS Lewis
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
— William Hazlitt
You must make friends, therefore, with what you don't know, instead of what you know. You must remain awake to catch yourself in the act. You must remove the beam in your own eye, before you concern yourself with the mote in your brother's. And in this way, you strengthen your own spirit, so it can tolerate the burden of existence, and you rejuvenate the state.
— Jordan Peterson
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,
— Joseph Addison
If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends.
— Joseph Addison