Literature Quotes Friendship

Friendship is the bond formed when mutual understanding and acceptance are shared. It’s walking together in different paths while staying close. True friendship transcends superficialities and sustains the world. It’s knowing one another deeply and cherishing the act of sharing life’s experiences without judgment or reservation.

Literature Quotes Friendship

1. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
— Jane Austen, “Northanger Abbey”

2. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”
— C.S. Lewis, “The Four Loves”

3. “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
— Irving Stone, “Clarence Darrow for the Defense”

4. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
— Elbert Hubbard, “The Notebook of Elbert Hubbard”

5. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
— Walter Winchell, “Walter Winchell’s New Book of Maxims and Epigrams”

6. “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
— C.S. Lewis, “The Four Loves”

7. “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
— Charles William Eliot

8. “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Emerson in Concord: A Memoir Written for the ‘Social Circle’ in Concord, Massachusetts”

9. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Essays: First Series”