Top 100 Friendship Is Love Quotes
#1. Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it's difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there's nothing else you could ever want.
Rachel Cohn
#3. This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.
David Levithan
#5. Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason
Mason Cooley
#6. Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
Augustus Hare
#9. There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's your ego letting go.
Jacqueline Koyanagi
#10. Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions.
Stephen Richards
#11. Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.
Nikki Grimes
#12. Find yourself first ... like yourself first ... love yourself FIRST ... & friendship & love will naturally find YOU.
Mandy Hale
#13. And I really wanted to see you, too," she said. "When I couldn't see you any more, I realized that. It was as clear as if the planets all of a sudden lined up in a row for me. I really need you. You're a part of me; I'm a part of you.
Haruki Murakami
#14. There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
William Hazlitt
#15. ... when people love you, they show up. Sometimes that means that they get to bail you out of trouble. It's not bad when that happens; it just means that you return the obligation when you get the chance. You be a guy who is present instead of a fuck-up.
Jeremy Bushnell
#17. Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden.
Brook Tesla
#18. The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.
Brian Houston
#19. Spend sunny afternoons writing. Take weekends in the country. Dream. Drink good wine, eat fabulous cheese and great bread. Make the kind of love that destroys the bed.
Rachel Hauck
#20. How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
A.A. Milne
#21. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.
F.K. Preston
#22. Your love for your friend should be grounded in Me, and for My sake you should love whoever seems to be good and is very dear to you in this life. Without Me friendship has no strength and cannot endure. Love which I do not bind is neither true nor pure.
Thomas A Kempis
#23. Love at first sight'some say misnaming
Discovery of twinned helplessness
Against the huge tug of procreation.
But friendship at first sight? This also
Catches fiercely at the surprised heart
So that the cheek blanches then blushes.
Robert Graves
#24. It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover.
Emma Frances Dawson
#25. This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.
Melina Marchetta
#26. Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
Jean Cocteau
#27. No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.
Shannon L. Alder
#28. You can't choose between Love and Friendship. They're like a package: You either get both or you lose both
Jaejoong
#29. Friendship never forgets that its only reason for existing is to love other people.
Paulo Coelho
#30. Penny, how can you behave like a total idiot?"
Anne giggled, "I have no pride when it comes to winning back people I love.
Anya Wylde
#31. When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.
Mason Cooley
#32. The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
George Hewitt Myers
#34. But nowhere is this a more urgent task than in matters of eros, the first and best hope of human connectedness in a world where all connectedness has become problematic
Allan Bloom
#35. Not my finest hour," he says, shaking his head.
"You realize you did it for no reason," I say. I tell him about talking to my dad and explain that I was crying because of that.
"That information would have been useful BEFORE I shoved him in the pool.
Heather Hepler
#36. When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
Ann Brashares
#37. Love yourself as you love your neighbour. If you love your neighbour with a heavy heart, love yourself too with a heavy heart.
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. But like any friendship or relationship, everything starts off as a tiny sprout-or so my granny says. If you neglect or smother it, it will eventually wither. But when nurtured and cared for properly...it will bloom into something special.
Instantmiso
#40. Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#41. Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#42. Maybe love was some combination of friendship and infatuation. A deeply felt affection accompanied by a certain sort of awe. And by gratitude. And by a desire for a lifetime of togetherness.
Chinelo Okparanta
#43. I'm not that bad," he said. "I'm rich, popular. I have a sense of humor. I'm good looking, and not to mention I have a really big -
J.M. Darhower
#44. Sometime it last in love but sometime it hurt in stead.
Irfan Syamil
#45. If someone isn't in your definition of "gorgeous" or "beautiful", it doesn't give you the right to call them ugly.
Abdullah Bashir
#46. With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#47. But friendship meant you at least planted the seed for them, love meant allowing them the ability to weed their own garden until it was something healthy and thriving, blooming and bright and smelling of heather and tiger lilies.
Shannon Noelle Long
#48. For love doesn't stand alone, nor can it, but trails like a blazing comet, bringing with it other shining goods - forgiveness, kindness, tolerance, fairness, companionability and friendship, all bound to the love which is at the heart of Jesus's message.
Ian McEwan
#49. Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.
Shannon L. Alder
#50. Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they are as mysterious in friendship as in love. It's a relationship like any other.
Vivian Gornick
#51. A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless' ...
Christopher Hitchens
#52. I love this world, even as I hear the great wind of leaving it rising, for there is a grainy taste I prefer to every idea of heaven: human friendship.
Rumi
#53. The I-It relationship, we treat other people as objects and expect something back from each relationship. In contrast, in the I-Thou relationship we relate to others out of respect, friendship, and love.
Alex Pattakos
#54. Unk, standing at a porthole, wept quietly. He was weeping for love, for family, for friendship, for truth, for civilization. The things he wept for were all abstractions, since his memory could furnish few faces or artifacts with which his imagination might fashion a passion play.
Kurt Vonnegut
#55. There are good fathers and bad fathers, good sons and bad sons, good husbands and bad ones, but great friends are all alike. We choose them and keep them. We aren't bound to them by anything but love.
Sarah Manguso
#56. Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
Stendhal
#57. LOVE IS NOT MADE UP OF OPITION
LOVE SOMEONE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BE LOVED BACK
DON'T LOVE SOMEONE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BENEFIT OR ACHIVE SOMETHING
Ralph Ramovha
#59. There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.
Bertrand Russell
#60. Love isn't always a physical emotion. Sometimes it's the ones who never got to actually hold you in their arms that appreciate you for who you are
Sarah Sprague
#61. 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
#62. Keep extending hand for friendship. Those alive will grip yours with theirs, while the morally dead will inflate; rubbing their own palms.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#64. I may not always be with you
But when we're far apart
Remember you will be with me
Right inside my heart
Marc Wambolt
#65. There is no medicine that can ignite the bond of love. Friendship is compulsory, love comes around when friendship ripes, and sex is a matter of choice.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#66. I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.
Ani DiFranco
#67. Irony of "importance": Those who deserve, don't get it; Those who don't, get it in abundance by you.
Shivam Singh
#68. Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry ... I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.
Charles M. Schulz
#69. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'Extras' and also 'The Trip.' That had all the nuances of friendship and finding things out about their lives without it being too much plot-driven.
Dolly Wells
#70. The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E.W. Howe
#71. Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don't think I ever met you in the middle. And I don't think I ever once said that you for that.
Cecelia Ahern
#72. But I did go back and soon I realized why. I was in love
Lindsey Kelk
#73. The point of life isn't to avoid pain. The point of life is to be alive! To feel things. That means the good and the bad. There'll be pain. But also joy, and friendship and love. And it's worth it, believe me.
John J. Stephens
#74. With so many people in the world i am confident in saying, if you connect with someone on a soul level you dont take them for granted.
Nikki Rowe
#75. I may not be happy with you right now, but I still love you.
Janet Gurtler
#76. I guess its because we all want to believe that what we do is very important, that people hang on to our very word, that they care what we think. The truth is, you should consider yourself lucky if you even occasionally get to make someone-anyone-feel a little better.
J.D Scrubs
#77. The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#78. Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.
Ted Rall
#80. May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past. May your hands be forever clasped in friendship, and your hearts joined forever in love. To the bride and groom.
Tracy Brogan
#82. But sometimes there's a difference between being needed and being taken advantage of.
Lindsey Kelk
#83. Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want.
Shahla Khan
#84. Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry ... Friendship ... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where.
Robert Burns
#85. Sometimes love was not about winning, but about wise sacrifice and the realiability of friends like Arianne. Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.
Lauren Kate
#86. You know you're in love when you open your heart knowing there's a chance it may be broken but in opening your heart, you experience a love that you never dreamed possible.
Theresa Lewis
#87. She was a source of love and comfort and friendship and companionship and like-mindedness without any of the difficulties of a girlfriend
Anthony Kiedis
#88. Dont judge me on my past but judge for my present,Love me as I will love you,Care for me as I will care for you' because I am your true friend as you are mine.
Michael Kedzlie
#89. His priorities for a rich and contented life were friendship, freedom, the pleasures of an examined life, and enough food and shelter to keep body and soul together.
Roger Housden
#90. All I want is to love you, Rory, I want so much more than our friendship. -Fenn
Candace Knoebel
#91. True friends may only speak several times a year and visit even less. But when life's challenges leave one of them vulnerable and in need of compassion, time and distance are no obstacles.
Shane Eric Mathias
#92. No human relation gives one possession in another - every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
Kahlil Gibran
#93. The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel Johnson
#94. Elli-" Neve lies down next to him. "It is not easy being friend with someone who has depression. Not because it's a burden, but because you love them. So their pain becomes your own." She rests her hand on his chest. "You really expect me to just sit by and do nothing ?
Nelou Keramati
#95. Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
Walter Savage Landor
#96. We like people for their qualities, but we love them for their defects." In writing this line I meant to say that we must not simply "accept" imperfection when it is revealed to us - we must celebrate it. This, I assure you, is the true sign of friendship.
Ron Perlman
#97. If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins.
Elvis Presley
#98. It's love. But it's a different kind,"
"Doesn't make it any less love, though.
Patrick Ness
#99. Love and passion are well and good while they last, but in the end what mattes is whether you like the person you are with. Friendship and companionship matter more. They are the things that last. And if in the end we learn to be friends, I will be content.
Arlene J. Chai
#100. The Infinity sign goes round and round without an end, and true love bears the same pattern.
Michael Bassey Johnson
