59 Awesome Best Friend Quotes
- Women`s Corner
- March 13, 2023
Friendship in simple words is a relationship you have with your chosen family. Friends are the sisters and brothers we never had, and are by our side through life’s ups and downs. It feels great to celebrate our friends for special occasions or simply brighten their day just because.
Here are 59 Awesome Best Friend Quotes:
1. “An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,
2. “I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
3. “Only my books anoint me,
and a few friends,
those who reach into my veins.” ― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems
4. “When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.” ― Shannon L. Alder
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5. “You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.” ― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
6. “Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.” ― Steve Irwin
7. “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.” ― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
8. “Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
9. “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. “it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.” ― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
11. “Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
12. “I don't like to give up on people when they need someone not to give up on them.” ― Carroll Bryant
13. “Kenji snorts.“That’s because you’re not fragile,” Kenji says. “If anything, everyone needs to protect themselves from you. You’re like a freaking beast,” he says. Then adds, “I mean, you know—like, a cute beast. A little beast that tears shit up and breaks the earth and sucks the life out of people.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
14. “A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.
Real friends are there to visit you not your house!” ― Jennifer Wilson
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15. “I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
16. “I hope we'll be friends forever, together we'll always be. I don't think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we'll think back to the past and think about how happy we are 'cause our friendship will always last.” ― Bridget Davis
17. “He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they’d met, when he’d understood that the prince was his brother in soul. “I love you.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
18. “To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.” ― Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight
19. “If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.” ― Mark Glamack
20. “I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.” ― Jody Gehrman, Babe in Boyland
21. “Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.” ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
22. “A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.” ― Aesop, Aesop's Fables
23. “Just because I've gone and snagged myself a hot boyfriend doesn't mean I'm going to leave my bestfriend high and dry.” ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
24. “The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.” ― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire
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25. “When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king, of Gansey asking the Gray Man for his life. Brothers.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
26. “The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with it, complain about it, immortalize it, cry over it, kick it, defame it, stalk it, gossip about it, pray over it, put it down or dissect its motives it continues to rot in your brain. It is dead. It is over. It is gone. It is done. It is time to bury it because it is smelling up your life and no one wants to be near your rotted corpse of memories and decaying attitude. Be the funeral director of your life and bury that thing!” ― Shannon L. Alder
27. “I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.” ― Rachel Machacek, The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding L ove
28. “People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?” ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
29. “We are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don’t want to tell us.” ― J. Lynn, Wait for You
30. “I was the Duff. And that was a good thing. Because anyone who didn't feel like the Duff must not have friends. Every girl feels unattractive sometimes. Why had it taken me so long to figure that out? Why had I been stressing over that dumb word for so long when it was so simple? I should be proud to be the Duff. Proud to have great friends who, in their minds, were my Duffs.” ― Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
31. “It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.” ― Nancy Werlin, Impossible
32. “Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments--because they're willing to brave the shadows with you--and in your greatest moments--because they're not afraid to let you shine.” ― Nicole Yatsonsky
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33. “You know a real friend?
Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.”
― William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals
34. “But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
35. “I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.” ― Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
36. “Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.” ― Criss Jami, Healology
37. “People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
38. “They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.”
― David Rovics
39. “Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
40. “All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.” ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
41. “Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.” ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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42. “I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
43. I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
44. “When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends.”
― Helen Steiner Rice
45. “There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.” ― J.D. Robb, Promises in Death
46. “Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.” ― Aristotle
47. “The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.” ― Stephen Richards
48. “To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.” ― Stieg Larsson
49. “Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.” ― Shannon Alder
50. “Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour. True friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there.” ― Habeeb Akande
51. “A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.” ― Dalai Lama XIV
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52. “If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. ” ― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
53. “It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.” ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
54. “You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.” ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
55. “Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming here, no way a story that started on a night that's burned into my heart will end the way I wish it could. You're really gone, no last words, and no matter how many letters I write to you, you're never going to reply. You're never going to say good-bye. So I will. Good-bye, Julia. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for being you.” ― Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You
56. “He thought about this for a second. "True. But if you never really make friends, you probably don't have anyone to be your 2 a.m. Which would kind of suck. I just looked at him as he stirred his soup, carrots spinning in the liquid. "Your what?" "Two a.m." He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's, like, the highest level of friendship.” ― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
57. “I give her the only honest and true answer I have.
"You're where I want to be.”
― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise
58. “I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!” ― Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë
59. “I've decided that I'm not going to try to squeeze myself into a friendship that hurts me anymore. I'm going to let her go and just be friends with people who make me feel good about myself.” ― Zoe Sugg
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