Looking for deep quotes for a close friend? We have rounded up the best collection of close friends quotes, sayings, captions, status messages, (with images and pictures) to celebrate the bond with your close friends and besties.
A “close friend” is somebody who you can talk to about everything, who makes you feel comfortable without fear of judgement and can have fun with. A close buddy is your bestie for life who stands by you with the ups and downs of life.
“Life was meant for close friends and great adventures.”
“I only entertain very close friends.” – Pharrell Williams
“Close friends make good times better and hard times easier.”
Close Friends Quotes
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides
“You will always be…. the sister of my soul, the friend of my heart.”
“We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much.”
“We’ll always be close friends because you match my level of crazy.”
“Close friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together.”
“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.”
“Best friends are hard to find, because the very best is already mine.”
“True friendship resists time, distance and silence.” – Isabel Allende
“Similarities create friendship, while differences hold them together.”
“Side by side, or miles apart, real friends are always close to the heart.”
“Best friends don’t care if your house is clean, they care if you have food.”
“We’ll be friends till we’re old and senile – and then we can be new friends.”
“A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you write them.”
“A close friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!”
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard
“There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.”
“May God give you happiness, and success, I wish for you my friend only the best.”
“Time and good friends are two things that become more valuable the older you get.”
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.” – Jane Austen
“I found out what the secret to life is—friends. Best friends.” — Fried Green Tomatoes
“Strangers can become best friends just as easily as best friends can become strangers.”
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” – Irish Proverb
“Best friends can talk for hours about nothing at all… or say everything with just a look.”
“Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer.” – Movie: “The Godfather (1972)”
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow Wilson
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” — Thomas Aquinas
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell
“You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.” – Elizabeth Taylor
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” – Dr. Seuss
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
“Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.”
“True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” – Nicole Richie
“A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.” – Steven J. Daniels
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
“True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.”
“Every girl has that one male friend in her life, with whom she can share everything.. without any fear.”
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” — Ed Cunningham
“Happy birthday to the one of the few people whose birthday I can remember without a Facebook reminder.”
“I love how we look at each other and without saying anything, know we are making fun of the same person.”
“A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face..”
“My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.” — Gloria Swanson
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
“Happy birthday, girl! Not only you are my best friend in the entire world, but you’re also like a true sister to me.”
“As much as a BFF can make you go WTF, there’s no denying we’d be a little less rich without them.” — Gossip Girl
“Best friends are people who make your problems their problems, just so you don’t have to go through them alone.”
“It’s not the diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.” — Gina Barreca
“Real friends don’t get offended when you insult them. They smile and call you something even more offensive.”
“Best friend: the one that you can be mad at only for a short period of time because you have important stuff to tell them.”
“I have learned that friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who came and never left your side.”
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” – Amy Poehler
“Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest. It’s about who walked into your life, said, “I’m here for you”, and proved it.”
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“There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.” — Henry Ford
“So thankful for the true friends in my life. The most that never turn their backs. The ones that always keep it real. Even when it hurts!”
“Best friend, thank you for standing by my side when times get hard, thank you for making me laugh when I didn’t even want to smile.”
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust
“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.”– Albert Camus
“Good friends help you find important things when you have lost them… your smile, your hope, and your courage.” — Doe Zantamata
“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” – Eustace Budgell
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” — Bernard Meltzer
“It’s a beautiful thing when you get so comfortable with someone and you realize you’re telling them things you’ve never said out loud before.”
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” — Richard Bach
“[The greatest gift in life] is the gift of friendship, and I have received it; the greatest healing therapy is friendship.” — Hubert Humphrey
“When friendship leaves us through death, we feel cheated in life. Life doesn’t play fair, so I vow to win the game for us both.” — Amy Hoover
“Best friends don’t necessarily have to talk every day. They don’t even need to talk for weeks. But when they do, it’s like they never stopped talking.”
“Good friends care for each other, close friends understand each other, but true friends, stay forever, beyond words, beyond distance, beyond time.”
“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.” — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”– Ally Condie
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” — Elie Wiesel
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” — Oprah Winfrey
“That was the thing about best friends. In the end, where the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.” — Kristen Hannah
“A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” — Lois Wyse, Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration
“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life—and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” — Dean Koontz
“I love you, Holder!” I yell after him. “Best friends forever!” He keeps walking forward, but lifts his hand in the air and flips me off. It’s almost as cool as a fist bump.” — Colleen Hoover
“Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.” – Mariella Frostrup
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” – Muhammad Ali
“And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the impossible, even if you must lose it later. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” ― Elie Wiesel, The Gates of the Forest
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Friendship — my definition — is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.” ― Stieg Larsson
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen
“Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.” ― Vincent Van Gogh
“In my friend, I find a second self.” – Isabel Norton
“Losing your best friend is like losing half of your heart.”
“I miss you in ways that not even words can understand.”
“Your best friend can hurt you ten times more than your enemy.”
“A close friend’s silence hurts more than an enemy’s rough words.”
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”– Marlene Dietrich
“Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf
“Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them.” – Candlelight Publications
“A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.” – Simon Sinek
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” — David Tyson
“Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” — Misty Copeland
“If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” — Winnie the Pooh
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” – Khalil Gibran
“A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation and doesn’t always need togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.”
“That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you – the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you – because that is what people are supposed to do.” — R. J. L.
“Dear Bestie, no matter how many friends I have, no matter how much I talk to them or spend time with them, always remember, that no one can replace you. You were, are, and will always be – irreplaceable. You have a special place in my heart forever.”
“Throughout life you will meet one person who is like no other. You could talk to this person for hours and never get bored, you could tell this person things and they will never judge you. This person is your soulmate, your best friend. Don’t ever let them go.”
“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.” – Winnie the Pooh
“I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.” — Jon Katz
When you find a good friend unexpectedly no matter how new they are, you always treasure them. Don’t forget to check out our collection of old friends quotes to cherish your bond.
You have to invest a lot of time and effort to develop and maintain new friendships, a true friend can be met at any point of life and may even inspire you in a way you never imagined you could be.
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