Friendship Quotes

The chosen family. Quotes about the people who show up, stick around, and make life better.

18559 quotes

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"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you"
Federigo Tozzi
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"True friendship is tested in hardship"
Federigo Tozzi
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"Loyalty to oneself is the first betrayal of others"
Ungaretti
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"Friends are those who remember us when we forget ourselves"
Ungaretti
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"The strongest bonds are forged in silence, not in conversation."
Eugenio Montale
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"Our friendships are tested not by time spent together, but by time spent apart."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"A friendship forged in honest discourse is stronger than steel."
Luis de Góngora
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"A true friend is a mirror in which we see our best and worst selves."
Garcilaso de la Vega
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"Friendship is love without wings."
Elio Vittorini
"In friendship, we discover the parts of ourselves we did not know existed."
Salvatore Quasimodo
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"Friendship requires the courage to be entirely oneself."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"Friendship requires vulnerability and genuine understanding."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"The deepest friendship survives the test of absence and misunderstanding."
Federigo Tozzi
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"Friendship is love without the complications."
Elsa Morante
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"Friendship is the space where we can be most truly ourselves."
Elio Vittorini
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"The strongest bonds are often forged in silence, not in words."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"The friendship that can end never really began."
Cesare Pavese
"Friendship is love without the need for explanations."
Salvatore Quasimodo
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"Friendship requires the courage to be truly seen."
Federigo Tozzi
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"Friendship asks us to be better than we are."
Federigo Tozzi
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"Friendship demands honesty even when kindness suggests otherwise."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"Friendship is the love we choose, which makes it perhaps the truest love."
Elsa Morante
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"Friendship is the space where we can be most fully ourselves."
Elio Vittorini
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"True friendship is tested in adversity, not in prosperity."
Dino Buzzati
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"Friends are chosen family."
Dino Buzzati
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"Each of us is an island. What saves us is throwing bridges."
Cesare Pavese
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"Friendship requires the honesty to be disliked."
Cesare Pavese
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"Friendship is tested in extremity."
Primo Levi
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"Community is found not in proximity but in understanding."
Federigo Tozzi
"Friendship is a form of love without the madness of passion."
Italo Svevo