100+ Inspiring Quotes About Friendship and Love

Friendship is the intricate dance that enlivens our lives, an elixir that brings tranquility, joy, and a sense of belonging. Love, on the other hand, is the heartbeat that motivates and sustains us, a force that binds us beyond the silences. In the whirlwind of life’s ebbs and flows, both friendship and love serve as steadfast anchors. This piece delves into the realm of friendship and love through different prisms and brings forth a collection of remarkable quotes. Let the wisdom of these words inspire and remind you of the boundless capacities that lie within our connections with others.
"True friends are like stars; you don't always see them, but you know they're always there." - Unknown
"Good friends are like quilts: they age with you, yet never lose their warmth." - Unknown
"A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden." - Unknown
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'" - C.S. Lewis
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." - Thomas Aquinas
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." - Leo Buscaglia
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau
"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." - David Tyson
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." - Woodrow Wilson
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." - Helen Keller
"Friends are the siblings God never gave us." - Mencius
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it." - Hubert H. Humphrey
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love." - Jane Austen
"In the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." - Khalil Gibran
"Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost." - Unknown
"Friendship is acceptance, an unconditional love that doesn't judge, with whom you feel safe to be who you are." - Unknown
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." - Elbert Hubbard
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life." - La Fontaine
"True love is finding someone who loves your imperfections as much as your virtues." - Unknown
"Friendship is love with wings." - Unknown
"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love." - Henry Miller
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." - Elbert Hubbard
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." - Virginia Woolf
"To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world." - Dr. Seuss
"A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth." - Charles Darwin
"Friends are like walls; sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it's good just knowing they are there." - Unknown
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." - James Baldwin
"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love." - Mahatma Gandhi
"There is no remedy for love but to love more." - Henry David Thoreau
"Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do." - David Wilkerson
"Forgiveness is the final form of love." - Reinhold Niebuhr
"A friend is a gift you give yourself." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"A shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow." - Swedish Proverb
"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." - Jim Morrison
"Love begins in a moment, grows over time, and lasts for eternity." - Unknown
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." - Audrey Hepburn
"Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world." - Henry Drummond
"Every moment is a fresh beginning." - T.S. Eliot
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears." - John Lennon
"A friend is what the heart needs all the time." - Henry van Dyke
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle
"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart." - A.A. Milne
"The best mirror is an old friend." - George Herbert
"Each new friendship can make you a new person because it opens up new doors inside of you." - Unknown
"There are no strangers, only friends you have not yet met." - William Butler Yeats
"New friends are like new adventures; you never know what lessons they will teach you." - Unknown
"A new friend is a fresh take on old dreams." - Unknown
"The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for one another’s little lapses." - David Storey
"Every new friend is a new adventure, the start of more memories." - Unknown
"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen." - Rod McKuen
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose." - Tennessee Williams
"The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families." - Jay McInerney
"Discover the joy of a new friend and reinvent yourself." - Unknown
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." - Euripides
"New friends are silver keys to golden doors." - Unknown
"Old friends remind you that what we once were, and always will be, was a beautiful journey." - Unknown
"Time and good friends are two things that become more valuable with age." - Unknown
"Reminiscing is a gift of spirit preserving moments with timeless laughter." - Unknown
"Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many." - Unknown
"Old friends are like fine wine; the older, the better." - Unknown
"Revisit memories with old friends; it warms the heart, every single time." - Unknown
"Youthful innocence turns into the soulful bond of nostalgia amongst old friends." – Unknown
"Old friends... they change your perspectives with a gallery of shared stories." – Unknown
"Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose." - The Wonder Years
"With old friends, every laugh is a warm echo to comfort your soul." - Unknown
"True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories." – Florence King
"An old friend, time's most precious relic." - Unknown
"The best love is the kind that enfolds you in its embrace without smothering you." - Unknown
"Friendship is another word for love." - Unknown
"A loving heart evokes noble deeds in the company of cherished friendships." - Unknown
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." - Euripides
"Love is a friendship set to music." - Joseph Campbell
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." - Baltasar Gracian
"Love recognizes no barriers except the ones we put up." - Unknown
"Friendships formed from love know no limitations." - Unknown
"A true friend is someone who loves you for the way you are." - Unknown
"A loving friend is a treasure, and treasures are meant to be cherished." - Unknown
"Affection springs from the strong bonds of reciprocal love and friendship." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without." - Rafael Ortiz
"Friendship isn’t a big thing; it’s a million little things." - Unknown
"Friendship grows beyond time, nurtured by shared dreams and untold stories." - Unknown
"The friends' smile comes straight from the heart and is reflected in memories shared forever." - Unknown
"Friendship is a sheltering tree." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"As iron sharpens iron, so one friend sharpens another." - Bible
"True friendship grows strong in the 'give and take' of worry, comfort, and laughter." - Unknown
"As we grow, friendships grow stronger through enduring the tests of time." - Unknown
"The ties that bind true friendships are ever bending, never breaking." - Unknown
"Every friendship we grow to hold, mirrors the goodness in others within us." - Unknown
"Friendship starts with hope, grows with support, and flowers with trust." - Unknown
"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds; a friendship by the deeds of its heart." - Unknown
"Let your friendships grow alongside you as your journey unfolds." - Unknown
"Let friendship be the pillow you rest upon, for it heals unseen wounds and nourishes the soul." - Unknown
"A friend stands by you, not because you are right, but because you are hurt." - Unknown
"In the pain and trials of life, a friend's hand is worth more than a thousand words." - Unknown
"We heal in the honesty of true friendships, wound by doubt, and find solace in sincerity." - Unknown
"Time alone heals the wounds; a friend's embrace mends the heart." - Unknown
"A friend is a balm for the bad and the joy for the good times." - Unknown
"Distrust is a rust that slowly consumes the truth in friendships." - Unknown
"Adversity does not break friendship bonds; instead, it strengthens the ties that bind close hearts." - William Shakespeare
"The only cure for a wounded soul is the love that exudes from a real friend." - Unknown
"The deep depths of misery discover the esteemed value of sincere friendships." - Unknown
"One loyal friend is worth a thousand relatives." - Euripides
"Words from the heart of a friend are medicine for the soul." - Proverbs
"The harmony of love and friendship plays the sweetest symphony in life's concert." - Unknown
"Friendship and love are two trees planted side by side, harvesting the sweetest fruits." - Unknown
"The dance of life celebrates when love and friendship move as one." - Unknown
"A soul mate is someone who appreciates the dance between love and friendship inside you." - Unknown
"If you have two or three real friends in life, you are indeed fortunate." - Unknown
"To be enveloped in love's embrace, you need a hand to hold and a friend to behold." - Unknown
"Friendship rekindles hope as love fans the flames of joy everlasting." - Unknown
"Love uncovers the soul, while friendship lets you dance unbridled." - Unknown
"A soul entwined in love's web always cherishes good friendships." - Unknown
"United in love's caress, enduring friendships are the crowning glory." - Unknown
"Love's light never extinguishes so long as your heart holds dear true friendship." - Unknown
"The seamless blend of love and friendship creates the magic we call life." - Unknown