Through Thick and Thin: 50 Quotes That Perfectly Capture Your Best Friend Bond

Best friends. They’re the family we choose, the partners in crime, the shoulders to cry on, and the cheerleaders who celebrate our every win. The bond we share with our closest friends is truly special, a tapestry woven with shared laughter, inside jokes, unwavering support, and countless memories.

Sometimes, it’s hard to find the words to express the depth of that connection. That’s where the wisdom of others can step in. We’ve curated a collection of 50 of the most heartfelt, funny, and insightful quotes about best friends that perfectly capture the essence of this invaluable relationship. Get ready to feel all the feels and maybe even send a few of these to your own amazing bestie!

50 Quotes Celebrating the Beauty of Best Friendship:

1. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer
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  
3. “The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert
4. “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” – William Shakespeare  
5. “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  
6. “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.” – Ecclesiastes 4:9-10  
7. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
8. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham
9. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter, and live better.
11. “Life is better with true friends.”
12. “Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”
13. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasow
14. “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.”  
15. Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.
16. “The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
17. A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not that good, and sympathizes with your troubles even when they’re not that bad.
18. “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” – Mencius
19. “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau
20. “A good friend knows all your best stories, but a best friend has lived them with you.”
21. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elisabeth Foley 22. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – Albus Dumbledore (Relatable to finding comfort in friendship)  
22. “It’s not about having many friends, it’s about having real ones.”
23. “A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never truly part.”
24. “The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.” – Seneca
25. “A friend is a gift you give yourself.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
26. “We weren’t sisters by birth, but we knew from the heart that fate had brought us together to be sisters forever.”
27. “Best friends are like four-leaf clovers: hard to find and lucky to have.”
28. “The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing all night, never say a word, and feel like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had.”
29. “True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.”
30. “A good friend is like a warm blanket on a cold day.”
31. It’s the friends we meet along the way that help us appreciate the journey.
32. “A best friend is someone who loves you when you forget to love yourself.”
33. “The soul recognizes its own.”
34. “Friends are the sunshine of life.” – John Hay
35. “A true friend is the best possession.” – Benjamin Franklin
36. “We’ll be friends until we’re old and senile… then we’ll be new friends!”
37. “The older I get, the more I realize the value of privacy, of cultivating my garden and of owning my soul.” – Alice Walker (Relatable to cherishing close friendships)
38. “True friendship resists time, distance, and silence.”
39. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” – Jim Morrison
40. “The best part about having a best friend is that you can be weird together.”
41. “Real friends don’t get offended when you insult them. They smile and call you something even more offensive.”
42. “Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food.”
43. “We go together like coffee and donuts.”
44. “You don’t have to be crazy to be my friend. I’ll train you.”
45. “Good times and crazy friends make the best memories.”
46. “I don’t know what I would have done so many times if I hadn’t had my girlfriends.” – Reese Witherspoon
47. “When it hurts to look back, and you’re scared to look ahead, look beside you and your best friend will be there.”
48. “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.”
49. “Here’s to the nights that turned into mornings and the friends that turned into family.”

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