43 Quotes About Needing a Friend

Everyone needs a friend in their life at some point or another. These quotes about needing a friend prove that some are in a greater need than others.

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”

“A friend is what the heart needs all the time.”

“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”

“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”

“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”

“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”

“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

“Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.”

“For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.”

“Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.”

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”

“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.”

“I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.”

“If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.”

“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”

“It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.”

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”

“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”

“My cell phone is my best friend. It’s my lifeline to the outside world.”

“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.”

“Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.”

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

“She’s always there for me when I need her; She’s my best friend; she’s just my everything.”

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”

“Solitude is creativity’s best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.”

“Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; you don’t have to be their best friend.”

“Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. ”

“The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.”

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”

“When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.”

“You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.”

Having a best friend in life is imperative to achieving lifelong happiness.