Friendship Quotes
The chosen family. Quotes about the people who show up, stick around, and make life better.
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"The greatest gift we can give is our presence."Carson McCullers
"Friendship is a form of love without expectation."Eudora Welty
"Friendship is love without the complications of romance."Joyce Carol Oates
"A true friend is someone who accepts you completely, flaws and all."Harper Lee
"There is no more important skill than the ability to listen."David Foster Wallace
"A good man is a man who has many good friends."Saul Bellow
"Friendship is born when two people recognize themselves in each other."Cormac McCarthy
"True friendship is knowing someone's flaws and loving them anyway."Carson McCullers
"The bond between people who have shared silence is deeper than many words."Carson McCullers
"Friendship is love with all the expectations removed."Eudora Welty
"The friendship that survives betrayal is no friendship at all."Cormac McCarthy
"You know what happens when you've got somebody with you—you're not lonely."Harper Lee
"Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget."Joseph Heller
"Friendship requires a peculiar kind of honesty that most people cannot sustain."Saul Bellow
"That's the thing I like about you."J.D. Salinger
"Friendship is love without the complications."Joseph Heller
"True friendship is rare because it requires vulnerability and honesty."Norman Mailer
"Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity."Kurt Vonnegut
"A sober friend is better than a drunk enemy."William S. Burroughs
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."William S. Burroughs
"Community is not a feeling but a practice."David Foster Wallace
"Friendship is sustained by people who actually like each other."Joseph Heller
"What I really meant was, I never saw it before I had a best friend."J.D. Salinger
"She was terrific company all the way."J.D. Salinger
"Kerouac was a great man and a great writer"Allen Ginsberg
"Friendship is the greatest treasure"Allen Ginsberg
"It's so nice to have a friend like you."Jack Kerouac
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."Joseph Heller
"Friendship is the only insurance against failure."Joseph Heller
"I am here to help you."William S. Burroughs