Quotes About Love & Friendship

"Some people make the world more special just by being in it."

"Thoughtfulness is to friendship as sunshine is to a garden."

"A friend is a present you give yourself." ~Robert Louis Stevenson

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice." ~Ben Jonson

"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends." ~Mary Catherwood

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." ~Charles Caleb Colton

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 am that matter." ~Marlene Dietrick

"To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy...." ~Guido

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." ~Elbert Hubbard

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend." ~John Leonard

"I get by with a little help from my friends." ~John Lennon

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art . . . It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival." ~C.S. Lewis

"Friendships are what our dreams are made of. We hold onto each other with it's binding love. We stand close to each other, hand in hand, showing each other we understand. Some friends may come and go, but you are the truest friend I know." ~Elsa Maxwell

"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

"It's easy to say you will die for a friend, but it's hard to find a friend worth dying for." ~Christopher Smith

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." ~Six Degrees of Separation

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." ~Six Degrees of Separation

"No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."

"Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship."

"Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends." ~Cindy Lew

"True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes."

"Life's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way."

"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other." ~Liciano DeCrescenzo

"Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired." ~Robert Frost

"Love is blinding. This is why lovers like to touch." ~German Proverb

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved." ~Victor Hugo

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to that of your own." ~Robert Heinlein

"It is often through breaking that hearts realize the depth of their capacity for love." ~Jim Howard

"If you judge someone, you have no time to love them." ~Mother Teresa

"The course of true love never did run smooth." ~William Shakespeare

"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better." ~William Shakespeare

"One word frees us from all the weight and pain of life. That word is love." ~Sophocles

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." ~John Wolfgang Van Goeth

"For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." ~Francis Bacon

"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: Do be my enemy for friendship's sake." ~William Blake

"Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter." ~Gelett Burgess

"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one." ~Oscar Wilde

"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted." ~Mother Teresa

"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate-it's apathy." ~Leo Buscaglia

"Love is a deep well from which you may drink often, but into which you may fall but once." ~Ellye Howell Glover

"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwile." ~Franklin P. Jones

"Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven." ~Henry Ward Beecher

"Now I know I've got a heart, 'cause it's breaking." ~Tin Man

"It doesn't matter where you go in life, what you dor, or how much you have, what's important is who you have beside you."

"You can give without loving but you can't love without giving."

"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination." ~Voltaire

"It is better to be hated for who are than to be loved for what you are not."

"I knew looking back on the times we cried I would laugh, but I never thought that looking back on the times we laughed, I would cry."

"I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me, I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way." ~Edgar A. Guest

"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are friends." ~Richard Bach

"Cherish friendship in your breast. New is good but old it best. Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver, the other is gold."

"Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end but somewhere in the middle we've become the best of friends."

"You're so beautiful it hurts to look at you." ~Claire Danes, MSCL

"So I cry sometimes when I lie in my bed just to get it all out, what's in my head."

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not fear your friends, they can only betray you; do not fear your enemies, they can only kill you; fear the others that let them hurt you."

"Love is . . . the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end." ~Madame DeStael

"Love is . . . the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins." ~Nicholas Chamfort

"Love is . . . the master key that opens the gates to happiness." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction." ~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"I love you the more in that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else." ~John Keats