1. “I mean talk. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what’s been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it’s been full of sorrow or anger, and even when you’re questioning why terrible things have to happen. So I talk with him.”― Nicholas Sparks
2. “I sometimes think that ‘friend’ is just a word I use for all the people I haven’t murdered yet.”― Scott Lynch
3. “There is bound to be turbulence in the clouds of confusion before one can view the friendly skies, and an illuminated landing strip.”― T.F. Hodge
4. “It’s not so much that the old friend is a better friend. It’s just that you know the person better, and you know they don’t really care if you’re acting like a poor, grovelling idiot. They know you would do the same for them.”― Markus Zusak
5. “Que l’on soit absent dans la pièce voisine, ou sur l’autre versant de la planète, la différence n’est pas essentielle. La présence de l’ami qui en apparence s’est éloigné, peut se faire plus dense qu’une présence réelle.”― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
6. “Our friend Dirac has a creed; and the main tenet of that creed is: There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.”― Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
7. “If you need to find out who is your friend among many, stimulate a resolutive conflict.”― Toba Beta
8. “Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.”― Amit Ray
9. “My mother is my friend who shares with me her bread all my hopelessness cured!Her company makes me secured!”― Israelmore Ayivor
10. “If you were going to be best friends with anyone – Kevin – you had to hate a lot of other people, the two of you, together. It made you better friends.”― Roddy Doyle
11. “Thank you,” I said, turning around a little so I could talk to him. “You’re a good friend.”“I know,” he said, as he tightened his hold around me. I leaned back against his chest, resting against him.“Beckett, I–,” I started to say, but he stopped me.“Shh,” he said. “You don’t need to say anything. Just watch the fireworks.”― Monica Alexander
12. “Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One Person You See At The Coffee Shop each day. Sometimes they exist to comfort you. Sometimes they exist to drive you absolutely mad. Be open to either as a form of self-improvement.”― Terry Pratchett
13. “A true friend is not angry when you insult. Instead they think of more insulting words to you.”― Sphencer Perales
14. “I always wanted to know what it is right. Maybe we know each other from time immemorial, if you know that in you is the eternal energy of goodness, which is most important for you.”― Gregor Golob
15. “Friends with whom you seriously fall out are death. Sometimes it will be completely your fault that this happens, and the shame and sadness of the parting will stay close for a long time.”― Margaux Bergen
16. “Why’d you call, boy? What did you want from me?” “The company of a friend, I think.” “Always a cheap treat.”― James Sallis
17. “A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.”― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
18. “Then it is your opinion…that a man should never-“Invest in portable property in a friend?”… “Certainly he should not. Unless he wants to get rid of the friend- and then it becomes a question how much portable property it may be worth to get rid of him.”― Charles Dickens
19. “I was his friend. There was nothing more to want.”― André Aciman
20. “If nature was your good friend when you were a child, you must then know that it will remain your good friend till the end of your life!”― Mehmet Murat ildan
21. “Wind also needs wind because everything and everybody needs a friend like himself!”― Mehmet Murat ildan
22. “If you have to block your closest friend in Facebook for some unavoidable reason, don’t feel bad, because he/she does not deserve your friendship.”― Pranab Jyoti Borah
23. “The octopuses seemed to be neither friends nor enemies, but in a state of complicated coexistence.”― Peter Godfrey-Smith
24. “Don’t assume that I’m your friend just because I’m smiling.”― Anthony T. Hincks
25. “The problem with ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend,’ is that once the common enemy is gone, you usually end up fighting each other.”― Stewart Stafford
26. “Pain is your teacher; pain is your guide; pain truly is your friend, and when pain brings you to your knees, put your hands together and thank God.”― Maximus Freeman
27. “Former best friends make the worst enemies.”― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
28. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend … even if it’s a monster.”― Nnedi Okorafor
