94 Friends Quotes On Friendship

Friendship is the heart and soul of the iconic TV show "Friends," capturing the essence of laughter, support, and unwavering companionship. As we embark on a journey through the top 94 Friends quotes on friendship, prepare yourself to relive some of the most memorable moments that defined the bonds between Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe. Whether you're a die-hard fan or just someone who appreciates the value of a good friendship, these quotes are sure to warm your heart and remind you of the special people who make life infinitely better. Let’s dive in and celebrate the timeless wisdom and humor that "Friends" has brought into our lives.

1. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” - Ernest Hemingway

2. “I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.” - Bill Watterson

3. “It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.” - Mahatma Gandhi

4. “A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.” - Dalai Lama XIV

5. “Why are you crying?" shivered the otter. "Because I am cold!" shouted the gnome. "Then why are you shouting?" chattered the otter. "Because," yelled the gnome, "when I shout it gets part of the cold from the inside out.” - Stephen Cosgrove

6. “But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.” - A.A. Milne

7. “If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.” - Zig Ziglar

8. “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

9. “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” - Stephen King

10. “When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.” - Groucho Marx

11. “No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

12. “Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.” - David Levithan

13. “What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!""You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!""THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!” - J.K. Rowling

14. “You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.'That is not what I meant,' interrupted my father, as obstinate as the trees and as pitiless as the sky.” - Marcel Proust

15. “My heart is warm with the friends I make,And better friends I'll not be knowing,Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,No matter where it's going.” - Edna St. Vincent Millay

16. “Which would you choose if you could:pleasure for yourself despite your friendsor a share in their grief?” - Sophocles

17. “A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.” - Frances O'Roark Dowell

18. “A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.Real friends are there to visit you not your house!” - Jennifer Wilson

19. “You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but a the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.” - Wm. Paul Young

20. “Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.” - Sarah Dessen

21. “We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.” - George W. Bush

22. “On page 605, Blumenthal says that 'I made friends with Hitchens's friends the novelists Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie.' True in its way. I particularly remember the occasion when he called me up and invited me to dinner with Dick Morris, but only on condition that I brought Rushdie (who was staying in my house) along with me. No Rushdie: no invitation. So I never did get to meet Dick Morris.” - Christopher Hitchens

23. “Hold on little girlShow me what he's done to youStand up little girlA broken heart can't be that badWhen it's through, it's through Fate will twist the both of you So come on baby come on over Let me be the one to show you” - Mr. Big

24. “I hope we'll be friends forever, together we'll always be. I don't think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we'll think back to the past and think about how happy we are 'cause our friendship will always last.” - Bridget Davis

25. “A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead singer who had locked himself in the bathroom with a bottle of pills and was refusing to come out till it could be proved conclusively to him that he wasn't a fish. The bass player was busy machine-gunning his bedroom and the drummer was nowhere on board.Frantic inquiries led to the discovery that he was standing on a beach on Santraginus V over a hundred light years away where, he claimed, he had been happy for over half an hour now and had found a small stone that would be his friend.” - Douglas Adams

26. “When I say 'friends,' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any.” - Stephan Pastis

27. “Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.” - Brenda Ueland

28. “Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.” - Anonymous

29. “Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.” - Rachel Cohn

30. “Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.” - Ana Monnar

31. “Cammie!" I'll never forget the tone of Macey's voice in that moment. "Cam," she said slowly, moving toward me, "I know how it feels to be watched every second of every day. I know what it's like to trust fewer and fewer people until it seems like you are completely alone in the world. I know you think the only things that are left in your life are the bad things. I know what you're feeling, Cam." Her hands were on my shoulders. Her blue eyes were staring into mine. "I know.” - Ally Carter

32. “He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.” - Sarah Addison Allen

33. “Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?” - Jenny Han

34. “Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must.""I'll stay," Will said a bit crossly, and threw himself down in the armchair Tessa had just vacated. "I can minister angelically.""None too convincingly. And you're not as pretty to look at as Tessa is," Jem said, closing his eyes as he leaned back against the pillow."How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun."Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.” - Cassandra Clare

35. “In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in these high experiences is the point of attachment.-- ” - Samuel McChord Crothers

36. “The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.” - Nicole Richie

37. “But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.” - Adriana Trigiani

38. “The first time she carved something into her skin, she used the sharp tip of an X-Acto knife. She lifted up her shirt to show me after the cuts had scabbed over. She had scrawled F*** YOU on her stomach. I stood quiet for a moment, feeling the breath get knocked out of me. I should have grabbed her arm and taken her straight to the nurse's office, into that small room with two cots covered in paper sheets and the sweet, stale medicinal smell.I should have lifted Ingrid's shirt to show the cuts. Look, I would've said to the nurse at her little desk, eyeglasses perched on her pointed nose. Help her.Instead, I reached my hand out and traced the words. The cuts were shallow, so the scabs only stood out a little bit. They were rough and brown. I knew that a lot of girls at our school cut themselves. They wore their long sleeves pulled down past their wrists and made slits for their thumbs so that the scars on their arms wouldn't show. I wanted to ask Ingrid if it hurt to do that to herself, but I felt stupid, like I must have been missing something, so what I said was, F*** you too, b****. Ingrid giggled, and I tried to ignore the feeling that something good between us was changing.” - Nina LaCour

39. “When a character comes to life, it’s like meeting a new friend for the first time.” - Lynette Mather

40. “Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who’s late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.” - Jess C. Scott

41. “It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.” - Mary Shelley

42. “Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” - A.A. Milne

43. “Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.” - Chuck Palahniuk

44. “Gratitude means to recognize the good in your life, be thankful for whatever you have, some people may not even have one of those things you consider precious to you (love, family, friends etc). Each day give thanks for the gift of life.You are blessed” - Pablo

45. “Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.” - Vincent Van Gogh

46. “In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees...Strangers are like friends” - Issa

47. “Govinda was standing in front of him, dressed in the yellow robe of an ascetic. Sad was how Govinda looked like, sadly he asked: Why have you forsaken me? At this, he embraced Govinda, wrapped his arms around him, and as he was pulling him close to his chest and kissed him, it was not Govinda any more, but a woman, and a full breast popped out of the woman's dress, at which Siddhartha lay and drank, sweetly and strongly tasted the milk from this breast.” - Hermann Hesse

48. “As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.” - L. Frank Baum

49. “And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me” - Ray Lamontagne

50. “Floating there I held onto faith. Because you can't know who might cross your path or who will take your breath away. You can't know what friends might actually become sisters because they stayed by your side. You can't know when there'll be an unexpected detour that'll take you to the place where you were always meant to be.” - Holly C. Corbett

51. “Friends never turn as enemies. If they did, they were never your friends at all.” - Hark Herald Sarmiento

52. “If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.” - Héloïse d'Argenteuil

53. “I was the Duff. And that was a good thing. Because anyone who didn't feel like the Duff must not have friends. Every girl feels unattractive sometimes. Why had it taken me so long to figure that out? Why had I been stressing over that dumb word for so long when it was so simple? I should be proud to be the Duff. Proud to have great friends who, in their minds, were my Duffs.” - Kody Keplinger

54. “The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.” - Thomas Bernhard

55. “See, some people politely encourage their tone-deaf friends to sing. Some people even convince them to go on live television and audition for national competitions. But me? I am not that friend.” - Sarah Ockler

56. “Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.” - Shannon Alder

57. “Josh will begin disappearing into a future where the only place he and I remain friends is on the Internet.” - Jay Asher

58. “Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.” - Woodrow Wilson

59. “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” - Francesco Guicciardini

60. “Friendship is so important. The goal of a good friendship should be for life! To keep it for life! If you find a friendship, and it gives you a joy inside, a peace, and a freedom; keep that friendship for life. Through it all, you stay together. So many friendships are toxic, but the good ones are really good! I always tell my son this, I always say, a friend is for life!” - C. JoyBell C.

61. “80% of man's happiness is based on love - love for others, love for self, love for family, love for friends, love for work, love for nature, and love for being loved.” - Ogwo David Emenike

62. “With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.” - Leo Tolstoy

63. “‎Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” - G. Randolf

64. “There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.” - Neil Gaiman

65. “I look around the room at some of the familiar faces and some of those who are still strangers to me. Somewhere deep within, I find the strength. The strength I was born from, that I never knew I possessed. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE” - Courtney Nuckels

66. “Before your reach your destination, you'll find yourself going through the wilderness. There's some survival skills that you'll need master through the wilderness journey. While in the wilderness, your faith will be tried and tested. You'll become humble. Your vision for your life will get clearer. You're in training for your purpose. You'll lose some friends, because there's some folks who are only with you because of where they think your journey will lead THEM. Don't worry, they're a little confused... but it was meant for them to get lost during this phase. Walk on. Continue on your journey. Soon, you'll be approaching the mountain. Get ready to climb!” - Yvonne Pierre

67. “Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.” - Haruki Murakami

68. “So many people came into your life, and they were such a part of the everyday that it was impossible to imagine them gone until, one day, they were.” - Maryanne O'Hara

69. “No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.” - J.K. Rowling

70. “I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to myself.” - Richard Paul Evans

71. “My house feels like home when you're there.” - Susan Richards Shreve

72. “When spiritual friends share their stories, the others listen without working. They rest. There’s nothing to fix, nothing to improve. A spiritual community feels undisturbed quiet as they listen, certainly burdened . . . but still resting in the knowledge that the life within, the passion for holiness, is indestructible. It needs only to be nourished and released.” - Larry Crabb

73. “People first become friends, and then they love each other.” - Priest Nicolae Tanase

74. “If you are looking for a friend that will never change, go to the shelves, you'll find it there. It will never change and will stay the same today and forever.” - Wency June Z. Libot

75. “With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend.To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All.. Time To Spend On Life.” - Jesse Holdeman

76. “It's always thoughts of family that drive me crazy, and it's always my friends who bring me back.Agents of Light and Darkness p.218” - Simon R. Green

77. “The decision to move to the second post-college city (or suburb, or town), however, is usually made independent of friends. No matter if you do it for love, career, family, or school, the second move is on your own terms.” - Rachel Bertsche

78. “You cannot be betrayed by your enemies, only your friends.” - Brian D. Anderson

79. “I don't like relationships, though. I mean, it is nice and all, but I prefer to be the friend. I don't know why. They're kind of exhausting.” - abraham m. alghanem

80. “True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.” - Randa Abdel-Fattah

81. “I will always love my mother for who she is and everything she does.” - Tammy-Louise Wilkins

82. “Oh we'll know each other for forever' Bix said. 'The days of losing touch are almost gone.' 'What does that mean? ' Drew asks.'We're going to meet again in a different place,' Bix said. 'Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us.” - Jennifer Egan

83. “Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.” - Kelly Clarkson

84. “Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works” - danielle steel

85. “She was as necessary as the sun to me” - Tiffany Baker

86. “but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.” - John Irving

87. “They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic.” - Erin Morgenstern

88. “I hadn’t gone to Andover, or Horace Mann or Eton. My high school had been the average kind, and I’d been the best student there. Such was not the case at Eli. Here, I was surrounded by geniuses. I’d figured out early in my college career that there were people like Jenny and Brandon and Lydia and Josh—truly brilliant, truly luminous, whose names would appear in history books that my children and grandchildren would read, and there were people like George and Odile—who through beauty and charm and personality would make the cult of celebrity their own. And then there were people like me. People who, through the arbitrary wisdom of the admissions office, might share space with the big shots for four years, might be their friends, their confidantes, their associates, their lovers—but would live a life well below the global radar. I knew it, and over the years, I’d come to accept it.And I understood that it didn’t make them any better than me.” - Diana Peterfreund

89. “You know, maybe we don't need enemies.""Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.” - Bill Watterson

90. “True friendship is as rare as twin lotuses on a single stalk.” - Lauren Bjorkman

91. “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.” - Joshua Slocum

92. “Want to know who I am?Your responses indicate that you have a normal desire to share yourself with others. However, this need is not being adequately fulfilled at present.As a result, you unconsciously attempt to treat this emptiness with momentary interests and temporary passions. If left unaddressed, this imbalance leads to impulsive behavior and unnecessary risks.Past betrayals have left you generally suspicious of others’ behavior, particularly regarding romantic relationships. You fear you may be exploited if you open yourself too fully. Consequently, you often seek some proof of a new friend’s or lover’s sincerity before you decide to trust them.Further complicating your relationships is the anxiety you have about your unfulfilled personal and professional goals. You fear that you’ve made decisions that weren’t in your own best interest, or failed to take advantage of opportunities when they presented themselves.The desire to overcome these challenges sometimes lead you to seem pushy or even arrogant. Because this competitive urge is not always apparent to others, they are often surprised by it.However, the passion that underlies your desire for success is unique. This makes you unlike others. You cannot simply accept what life has to offer; you aspire for more.Between each inhale and exhale we die and are reborn.” - Micheal Tsarion via wordslessspoken

93. “Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.” - Lauren Conrad

94. “Ada ruang kosong di sela-sela sebuah kata. Ada banyak omong kosong di sela-sela bicara--tapi perlu. Adalah percakapan dengan teman yang selalu bisa menjaga kewarasan, menyelamatkanku dari jemu sempurna. Di tengah carut-marut fungsi mekanistik otomatik hampir robotik sebuah industri yang menyelubungi diri dengan judul keramah-tamahan manusia, ada teman-teman--manusia yang hidup dan dekat.” - Nukila Amal