Top 63 Friendship Can Be Love Quotes
#1. If there's one thing I learned, it is that blood families can sometimes be the pits; it's the one you make for yourself that really gives you a home and people to love.
Joss Stirling
#2. Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
Augustus William Hare
#3. But thou art with us, with us in the past,
The present, with us in the times to come.
There is no grief, no sorrow, no despair,
No languor, no dejection, no dismay,
No absence scarcely can there be, for those
Who love as we do. Speed thee well!
William Wordsworth
#4. I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
Alban Berg
#6. I have to believe it's right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend.
Betsy Cornwell
#7. There's no time like the present,
No present like time.
And life can be over in the space of a rhyme.
There's no gift like friendship
And no love like mine.
Give me your love to treasure through time.
Georgia Byng
#8. If my life was pulled into the pages of a book, there would be coffee stains and wrinkles along the lines of that narrative. Because all I can wish is that the book of my life would be well read and well loved. Living within words and the sound of writing.
F.K. Preston
#9. The presence of the other, which can be very threatening, becomes, in play, a delightful source of curiosity, and this curiosity contributes toward the development of healthy attitudes in friendship, love, and, later, political life. Winnicott
Martha C. Nussbaum
#10. Dia wrinkled her nose. "Gross. You need a decent girl, one that can straighten you out."
"I don't need to be straightened out," Carmine said. "Why drown in love when you can have so much fun swimming in lust?
J.M. Darhower
#11. There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
William Penn
#12. Even if most days can't be half as good as today, it's days like this that make it all worth it.
Crystal Woods
#13. There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
Rusty Berkus
#14. Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation ... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
Anatole France
#15. You're not simple. You're complicated. You're difficult, challenging, beautiful, and you exhaust me. I love you, I do. You're my best friend, but I can't be with you. Not like that. Are you happy now?
Jessica Calla
#16. I also say you can tell your true friends, by the ones who put a bucket by your bed when your drunk and going to be sick - (my quote - so proud)
J. Yates
#17. She had been trying hourly to ensure that this new friendship remained such, to be certain that it would not slip out of the careful grasp of her fingers and into the darker champers of her heart.
Shamim Sarif
#18. A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.
Stephen Richards
#19. Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#20. Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion ...
Shannon Hale
#21. Love can be about more than attraction. I sometimes think it is more a question of sanctuary, a case of unassailable friendship.
James Runcie
#22. I know love, and what it does to you, for you. I know that it can bloom out of friendship, or that friendship can open out of love. Both are precious. And when you have both, there's little that can't be done.
J.D. Robb
#23. Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.
David Gemmell
#24. I wish I could draw you how I see you. I'd draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest hands, and eyes that are gloomy, but can sometimes be bright. I'd draw a boy who deserves to see the ocean.
Jasmine Warga
#25. Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.
Baruch Spinoza
#26. A friend has to be outside my reach, beyond my grasp. And there can be no friendship with someone whom I am not ready to betray: a friend is someone I can betray with love.
Slavoj Zizek
#27. Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.
Josh Billings
#28. The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a delicate poise between love and friendship - that period in the history of a love when alone it can be said to be unalloyed with pain.
Thomas Hardy
#29. If you build the faith to trust a friend as God, then your heart can never be broken.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#30. Sometimes your soul just can't let go of someone. They mean too much to you. Do you very best to love them from a distance. Love is the only thing that travels with clarity and doesn't have to be dissected, disputed or questioned.
Shannon L. Alder
#31. Even a friendship needs an effort from both sides, how can we expect a relationship to work from the effort of one..!!
It should be a true-hearted commitment from both involve.
Akansh Malik
#32. Love is not automatic. It takes conscious practice and awareness, just like playing the piano or golf. However, you have ample opportunities to practice. Everyone you meet can be your practice session.
Hari
#33. Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies.
Suzy Kassem
#34. With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#35. I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years.
Carole Lombard
#36. Because we grow up, Filip,' Tedros exhaled. 'When you're young, you think your best friend is everything. But once you find real love... it changes. Your friendship can never be the same after that. Because no matter how much you try to keep both, your loyalty can only lie with one.
Soman Chainani
#37. Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you
Erykah Badu
#38. We stand in silence for another moment and I realize how lucky I am to have someone I can be myself around in all my melancholy glory.
Marisa Calin
#39. Life without you? Actually I can't imagine what it would be, because you are always with me, you're like my guardian angel and above all a very fun and responsible friend. I love you.
Auliq Ice
#40. In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard.
Madelaine Standing
#41. True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision.
Helen Rowland
#42. One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#43. Love is a two-way game, you cannot truly love one who does not love you, and neither can you force them to love you, better look past the hurtful deeds and search for the one who truly loves you and that will be right with you.
Auliq Ice
#44. There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can just be like this forever' but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.
Nina LaCour
#45. Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Dennis Prager
#46. Love can be simply the absence of tension.
Will Advise
#47. He leaned in and kissed her cheek. Just the lightest touch of lips, but it took her breath away.
"What was that for?" She said, when she could talk.
He held out his hands to the street and the town. "See, the world didnt explode. I think we can be friends
Kathryn James
#48. Keep in mind that the reason you know you can be good to others is only because you've taken strides to be better for and to yourself.
Alexandra Elle
#49. No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.
Shannon L. Alder
#50. Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone
Ouida
#51. Can miles truly separate you from friends ... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach
#52. Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.
Mahatma Gandhi
#53. I know that some people disparage you for your lack of knowledge, and I know you may not understand me, Peter, but I wish you could, because you might be the only person who would. I feel that I can tell you anything Peter.
Christopher Daniel Mechling
#54. It's not that I feel alone because I have no friends because I have lots of friends. I know that I have people who can hold me and reassure me and talk to ne and care for me and think of me but they can't be inside my head with me all the time - for all time.
Rob Ryan
#55. Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected by any armour.
Kevin McLeod
#56. That softness around your eyes, a softness in your face. Almost the way you feel when you're about to start crying. That, to me, is love. It can be romantic love, it can be friendship love, it can be family love, it can be love for a chipmunk. It can be love for anything.
Moby
#57. If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?
Sophie Kinsella
#58. In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#59. Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.
Louis Orr
#60. Friendship can only be addition to, not a substitute for true love
P.C. Cast
#61. I hate that my life is teaching me that I can only be loved if I put my love out of reach and just drift above people until they love my remoteness.
Helen Oyeyemi
#62. 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.
Jennifer Niven
#63. Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship.
Lewis Mumford
