Friendship Quotes

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

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"A true friend is one who knows your flaws and loves you anyway."
Maxim Gorky
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"I agree that a man should love animals; they are often more faithful than people."
Ivan Turgenev
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"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success."
Ivan Turgenev
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"A friend who truly knows you is a rare treasure."
Ivan Turgenev
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"In friendship, as in love, we are often happier for what we do not know."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"A true friend is rare and precious beyond measure."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The strongest bonds are forged in suffering."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The poor man's friendship is worth more than gold."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The greatest gift is being truly seen by another."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Friendship requires honesty, even when honesty brings pain."
Nikolai Gogol
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"A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages: first, an agreeable acquaintance, secondly, a mistress, and only then a friend."
Anton Chekhov
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"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod."
Anton Chekhov
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Every person has memories which he would not tell to everyone but only to his friends."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Do you know what friendship means? It means absolute understanding."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"A true friend is the rarest of all things in this world."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The most precious human possession is a sympathetic ear."
Ivan Turgenev
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"A true friend stabs you in the front, never in the back."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Friendship is the shadow of eternity."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Friendship requires the rarest of virtues: absolute honesty and complete tolerance."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"A moment of genuine connection outweighs a lifetime of solitude."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The best time to make friends is before you need them."
Ivan Turgenev
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"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."
Ivan Turgenev
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"There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't yet met."
William Butler Yeats
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"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."
William Butler Yeats
"Friendship is the only cure for certain kinds of loneliness."
Samuel Beckett
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"Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer."
Oscar Wilde
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"Friendship is a bond that transcends mere proximity or circumstance."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The price of friendship is understanding."
James Joyce
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"In old age, we realize that true friends are more valuable than all the wealth in the world."
Anton Chekhov