A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience. A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.
Look to these quotes for comfort and remember to cherish the days ahead with your best friends by your side.
1. “A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be someplace else.”– Len Wein
2. “The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”— Hubert H. Humphrey
3. “A true friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be going down”– Arnold H. Glasow
4. “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”— Jim Morrison
5. “Some people only get called by their nicknames. Usually, it sounds weird to even say their real name.”– Anon
6. “A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail. A best friend is the one sitting next to you saying ‘boy was that fun.”– Kate Angell
7. “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”— Marcel Proust
9. “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”― Jean de la Fontaine
10. “A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.”– Sasha Azevedo
11. “A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have.”― Sarah Valdez
12. “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
13. “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.”— Irish Proverb
14. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”– Henry Ford
15. “True friends are like diamond—bright, beautiful, valuable and always in style.”— Nicole Richie
16. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”— Leo Buscaglia
17. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”— Anais Nin
18. “A friend is someone who knows all about you, and loves you just the same.”– Elbert Hubbard
19. “Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”— Bill Watterson
20. “Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.”– Anon
21. “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”— Thomas Aquinas
22. “No friendship is an accident.”– O. Henry
23. “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”― Henry David Thoreau
24. “Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.”— Anna Taylor
25. “Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life.”— Nathanael Richmond
26. “Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.”– Ed Cunningham
27. “A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.”— Grace Pulpit
28. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”― Woodrow T. Wilson
29. “The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”— William Blake
30. “Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”– Bill Watterson
31. “The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.”— Shanna Rodriguez
32. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”— Ed Cunningham
33. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”— Aristotle
34. “The road to a friend’s house is never long.”– Danish Proverb
35. “Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.”— C.J. Langenhoven
36. “The best time to make friends is before you need them.”― Ethel Barrymore
37. “I get by with a little help from my friends.”― The Beatles
38. “That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.”– Kristin Hannah
39. “Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.”— Steve Maraboli
40. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”– Helen Keller
41. “Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.”― Sicilian Proverb
42. “A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.”– Anonymous
43. “It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”― John Leonard
44. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”— Aristotle
45. “A friend is what the heart needs all the time.”— Henry van Dyke
46. “True love is finding your soul mate in your best friend.”– Faye Hall
47. “Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”— Virginia Woolf
48. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
49. “The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.”— Chelsea Handler
50. “Everyone has a ‘best friend’ during each stage of life, but only a precious few have the same one.”– Anonymous
