Albert Camus
Friendship is less simple. It is long and hard to obtain but when one has it there's no getting rid of it; one simply has to cope with it. Don't think for a minute that your friends will telephone you every evening, as they ought to, in order to find out if this doesn't happen to be the evening when you are deciding to commit suicide, or simply whether you don't need company, whether you are not in the mood to go out. No, don't worry, they'll ring up the evening you are not alone, when life is beautiful. As for suicide, they would be more likely to push you to it, by virtue of what you owe to yourself, according to them. May heaven protect us, cher Monsieur, from being set upon a pedestal by our friends!

Alexandre Dumas
...The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground.. .they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us...

Agatha Christie

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.

Aristotle

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Barbara Kingsolver

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your enemy's enemy is your friend.

Ben Kingsley

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I had a rule that it was better to be bored by yourself than to be bored with someone else. I pretty much lived by that rule. Maybe that's why I didn't have any friends.

Benjamin Franklin

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Bob Marley

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Buffalo Bill

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.

Carl Sandburg

The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Carroll Bryant

I don't like to give up on people when they need someone not to give up on them.

Carrot Top

It's weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends.

Charlotte Brontë

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Charlotte Eriksson

There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, without a word. No questions, no asking why, just quietly lay there with you, observing the stars, until you're ready to get back up on your feet again and walk the last bit home, softly holding your hand as a quiet way of saying “I'm here”.

Why not keep this resource at your fingertips?

Christopher Hitchens

I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody left on the face of the earth, either friend or relative, . No one who remembered her girlhood and her early mischief and family lore; no sibling or boon companion who could tease her about that first romance; no lover or pal with whom to reminisce. All her birthdays, exam results, illnesses, friendships, kinship.

Chuck Klosterman

It is important to have questionable friends you can trust unconditionally.

Cicero

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Criss Jami

Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.

David Levithan

I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.

Dean Koontz

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

E.B. White

“Why did you do all this for me?” he asked. “I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.” “You have been my friend,” replied Charlotte. “That in itself is a tremendous thing.”

E.W. Howe

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Euripides

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

G.K. Chesterton

In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends.

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George Herbert

The best mirror is an old friend.

Heather Brewer

The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.

J.A. Redmerski

Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive; it’s what makes being a best friend official.

J.R.R. Tolkien

“But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,” said Frodo. Sam looked at him unhappily. “It all depends on what you want,” put in Merry. “You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.”

Jack Kerouac

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

Jean de La Bruyère

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Jennifer Niven

I guess you can be yourself, whatever that means-the best and worst of you. And they love you anyway. You can fight, but even when you're mad at them, you know they're not going to stop being your friend.

Jodee Blanco

What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain.

John Churton Collins

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

Johnny Depp

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

Kate Hudson

No matter how far you take it with your friends, whether you're fighting with them or you hate them for two months, you just really need them, because they're the ones who teach you the most about yourself.

Kay Knudsen

Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.

Lana Del Rey

Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.

Lois Lowry

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

Maria Shriver

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Maria V. Snyder

Sieges weathered, fight together, friends forever.

Marlene Dietrich

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Mark Twain

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Morgan Matson

Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what. The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home. And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends.

Nicole Yatsonsky

Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments--because they're willing to brave the shadows with you--and in your greatest moments--because they're not afraid to let you shine.

Oprah Winfrey

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Paula Abdul

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

R.A. Salvatore

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.

Sarah Dessen

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.

Walter Dean Myer

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

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